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

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

One of those guys will step up and do a nice job in there. But the maturity and being in a game situation definitely goes to Eric.

Maturity doesn’t advance linearly, like you steadily and readily becoming more profound in your thinking. No, it staggers and stumbles like a drunk.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How many human beings go through the world frozen with rage against...

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

Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was...

The youngsters have responded brilliantly to the pressure situations and shown maturity beyond their years keeping their spirits high throughout.

bored buddha.” In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.

Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away...

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

Always think twice before responding in anger. Words and written communication cannot be taken back. Chances are you’ll feel differently tomorrow.

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the...

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn’t have to be like them.

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

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as...

He’s maturing and getting better every week. We have a lot of young players on this team. I couldn’t be more pleased with how they have progressed.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

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...

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that...

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you...

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a...

That’s a reflection of the maturity of the medium. It’s harder to grow at the same rate or higher.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves;...

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn’t our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we’re vessels, and we...

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey...

Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

…at some point we must achieve our identity -we can’t be always in adolescence seeking who we are…

We came in at the half and told our kids, ‘Hey, it’s a typical West-Central game. We had chances to extend our lead, and we lost our head a little bit and had some silly...

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

It’s funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of...

We’re a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience — among so...

I have leveled with the girls – from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt’s the living together afterward that’s tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It’s an...

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

Supreme level of maturity is needed to realize; that, conveyance of family life, depends on equally maintained pair of wheels and both crediting each other, for their functioning and struggles as well.

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained.

We mature not by years, but by stories…” Cinderella In Focus:Cindy’s Secret

Pineapple juice doesn’t come in a can—it comes in a hard, spiky shell called a pineapple. Pineapples are great and all, but of all things to grow, up is the most profitable.

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

We believe the slow market conditions and maturity of this market can continue to limit upside and put pressure on high-end estimates.

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements – as well as one’s deepest failures – is a definite symptom of maturity.

It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that...

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you