"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."

Macnaughton, John on maturity
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"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

Rohn, Jim on maturity
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"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through."

Overstreet, Harry A. on focus
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"One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him."

Overstreet, Harry A. on age and aging
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"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."

Whitehead, Alfred North on experience
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."

Tracy, Brian on relationship
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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on education
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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

Davies, Robertson on books - classics
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"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised."

Landers, Ann on maturity
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"When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom."

Proverb, Italian on punishment   

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on questions
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"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

Sophocles on proverbs
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"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."

Therous, Phyllis on mistakes
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"Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on knowledge
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"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

Tupper, Martin on memory
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"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on doubt
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"Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure."

Talmud, The on deeds and good deeds
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"Instead of starry-eyed worship of grand illusions, the mature citizen admires and idealizes proven values. He reveres, among other things, certain time-honored virtues and the people who practice them, especially the personal ideals of honesty, integrity, self-reliance, courage, persistence and dependability; the political ideals of individual liberty, the rights of property and contract, and the rule of law; and the ethical ideals of mutuality, decency and charity, among others. "

Rossiter, Lyle H. Jr. on politics
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"The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."

Coolidge, Calvin on wisdom   

"Maturity is knowing when to be immature."

Hall, Randall on maturity
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"Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty."

Finley, John Huston on maturity
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"There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish."

Lucado, Max L. on excellence
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

Stoppard, Tom on age and aging
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"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."

Mann, Horace on manners
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"I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification."

Cahn, Peggy on maturity   

"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."

Carlyle, Thomas on behavior   

"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."

Naisbitt, John on technology
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"Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends."

Ruskin, John on spirituality
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"Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."

FeNelon, Francois on spirituality   

"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on spirituality
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"Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified."

Redfield, James on life   

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

Waitley, Denis on happiness
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"Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear."

Unknown, Source on spirituality