#maturity

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ↗

— Martha Graham

#age #glory #maturity #term #years

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#certain #experience #finally #fuller #greater

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#life #maturity #life

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that. ↗

— Chris Brown

#fans #girl #i #least #level

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#experience #maturity #perspective #experience

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bypass #i #maturity #senility #trying

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#become #father #father figure #figure #girlfriends

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#cultivates #each #fruit #grow #him

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.' ↗

— Donny Osmond

#am #cheesy #country #escape #fine