#maturity

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#maturity #youth #life

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

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The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring value to their own lives and the community around them, we've relegated our young adults to teenage foolishness. Then as a culture we walk around shaking our heads in bewilderment at these young people with retarded maturity. Never in life do people have as much energy as in their teens, and to criminalize leveraging it is certainly one of our nation's greatest resource blunders. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#maturity #teens #work #young-adults #youth

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#maturity #obedience #life

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#children #maturity #philosophy-of-life #progress #life

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#maturity #uncertainty #uncertainty

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#maturity #music

Sally did the mature thing and stuck her tongue out at her best friend. ↗

— Quinn Loftis

#jacque #sally #to #maturity

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better. ↗

— Lindsay Buckingham

#excellence #improvement #maturity #practice #maturity

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers. ↗

— Anne Bishop

#maturity #questions #appreciation