maturity

Grow up to maturity because the worldis waiting for you

All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without being devoured. To understand the predator is to become a mature animal who is not vulnerable out of naivete, inexperience, or foolishness.

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.

The most easiest thing is to leave, abandon or forget somebody.. Difficult is to be with someone, after all it comes with responsibility which not everyone fulfill.

If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, giving actual money and power to teenage boys (and girls) is as predictably disastrous as you would imagine.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

What we want to do in this moment is rarely what's best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need to be doing things I don't want to be doing.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

Maturity is the light for the buds to bloom!

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don__ look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

They drove back to her house in silence. Terrance pulled the car into the driveway and turned off the engine. Turning toward her, he said, __hadejah, I really like you a lot and I don__ want to hurt you. But I__ not a virgin and I like to have sex. If we__e going to keep seeing each other, you__e got to make a decision, because if I can__ get it from you I__l get it from someone else._ He looked her straight in her tear-filled eyes. __ need to know whether to get a room for after the concert. Let me know tomorrow._ He reached over and opened her door. Khadejah didn__ say a word. She got out of the car and went into the house.Terrance sat there for a few minutes wondering if he was being fair. She had to know that he was having sex. Damn, I should feel honored that she__ still a virgin, he thought. Shit, I__l just have my cake and eat it, too.Ten minutes later, Terrance was knocking on Adrienne__ door. __ey, can I come in?

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy.

Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.' [William the road-mender about Merlin]

Learning to think for yourself is how you separate yourself from your parents and make the transition from being a child to being an adult, though part of maturity is being able to take opposing viewpoints into consideration.