maturity

It is true that for many aged saints, gray hair and a good head go hand in hand. But for others, far too many others, length of life only entrenches stubbornness, irritability, and careless ways of thinking and living. Life experience may increase inevitably with age, but without some long-term pattern of receptivity and intentionality, multiplied experiences will only create more confusion than clarity.

There comes a time in your life where youhave to live without the wo/man of yourdreams and have to live with the one in your reality.That is called maturity

There's truths you have to grow into.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

Friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody

A few people of integrity can go a long way.

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these distant sails should bear down towards her, and one should come, in whose hand she would lay her own, and they two would flee to the far East. But as the changeless years went by and brought him not, the girl grew sullen, and a sense of wrong possessed her, for the older she grew, the clearer became her consciousness of a world beyond her, and the greater her longing to seek it.("The Serpent's Head")

All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unraveling the mysteries of high voltage; or a medical student, grinding away night and day, studying the secrets of the human body and using available technologies to help your patients; or a would-be stockbroker or a student of high finance; or a trainee in one of the psychoanalytic schools, you are in exactly the same position as the apprentice shaman or witch doctor in tribal societies. You are spending large amounts of time, energy, and money in order to be initiated into rarefied realms of secret power. You are undergoing an ordeal testing your capacities to become a master of this power. And, as is true in all initiations, there is no guarantee of success. [Magician energy]

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

When I say "I am omnipresent" I actually mean that. I can see, analyse and understand what is happening where, why , when and how!! Nothing is hidden. I will forgive all your sins.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows_ _ _ _ Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake over, sickening and masterful _ _ _ _ _ Some say, de

I am not half the man I use to think I was.

Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

Knowing your responsibilities doesn't make you mature but acting up on it does.

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.