#maturity

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. ↗

— Quintilian

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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Maturity A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows         Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall start to feel the backward pull Take over, sickening and masterful —         Some say, desired. And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink, As if at pain; for it is pain, to think         This pantomime Of compensating act and counter-act, Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,         My ablest time. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#maturity #stasis #life

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth. ↗

— Daniel Prokop

#growing-up #humor #maturity #never-growing-up #humor

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #humorous #immaturity #teenagers #teens

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them? ↗

— Diana Peterfreund

#maturity