maturity

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

Self appreciation is a sign of maturity, seeking appreciation is a sign of immaturity

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

I don't care that you are not a young twink. I like to think that I'm picking you at your peak.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of youth groping among the obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness. Not to be confused with the state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy, financial security, sensual atrophy, emotional penury, and spiritual collapse which, under the name __aturity_, animated lives around him, it might be said that Reverend Gwyon had reached maturity.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one__ own.

Maturity is when we differentiate between our wants and needs and treatment them as such.

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy...

...Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but] ...the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. If a parent commands a little child not to play with matches, and then commands a teenager to light the campfire, is this a contradiction? It's only a question of preparedness - one is ready and one is not.