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It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.

I’ve always resented the word maturity, primarily, I think, because it is most often used as a club. If you do something that someone doesn’t like, you lack maturity, regardless of the actual merits of your action. Too, it seems to me that what is most often called maturity is nothing more than disengagement from life. If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn’t, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those “mature” people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures. This has never appealed to me and that is another reason I could never accept the common image of maturity that was presented to me. It was only after I came back from Trial that I came to a notion of my own as to what maturity consists of. Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. It is easy now to see the irrelevance of the religious wars of the past, to see that capitalism in itself is not evil, to see that honor is most often a silly thing to kill a man for, to see that national patriotism should have meant nothing in the twenty-first century, to see that a correctly-arranged tie has very little to do with true social worth. It is harder to assess as critically the insanities of your own time, especially if you have accepted them unquestioningly for as long as you can remember, for as long as you have been alive. If you never make the attempt, whatever else you are, you are not mature.

I've noticed that everything I'm inspired by the most at this stage is very different from what inspired me when I was younger. There's significantly little romance and significantly more depth. At first I was sad and worried about this. I thought there was something emptied or broken with me for a while, that the experiences of life had really damaged that part of me. But I think I've been misunderstanding the purpose of that. Maybe everything is exactly right with me now for what I have to create. And maybe the best and highest art I can ever make will come from this version of myself.

I walked around and around it, not because I felt I had to, but because I felt like it deserved that much attention from me. I found myself looking at each individual part closely, rather than the entire thing, because if I looked at the entire thing it would be like staring at the sun. It was such an unblinking portrayal of a person that it rose above any hack-neyed hype about it. It flicked away all my cynicism about Seeing Art without flinching and just made me look. I walked out of there thinking, Now I am older.

I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12­–14 play out.

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at some seeming maturity when I was past thirty. It was only in my forties that I really began to feel young. By then I was ready for it.

I was "older" in my head than some people twice my age. But the stupid government mandated an arbitrary measure, days on this earth, to account for ability or maturity.

I wear my scars as a queen wears her crown.

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

LINK OUT OF SYNC When the mind fails to keep pace with the body's maturity Kamil Ali

Love is to free, not to imprison.

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained.

Mankind is growing out of religion as out of its childhood clothes. - On Religion

Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.

Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation which represents the next stage of business maturity.

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.

Maturity: control your emotions! Maturity: get understanding! Maturity: learn from daily experiences! Maturity: practice what you learn distinctively! Maturity: know when to do what! Maturity: understand silence, actions and words and use them well and appropriately! Maturity: don’t just say anything, don’t just do anything, don’t just act anything, don’t just throw anything and don’t just show anything at all, not even at the most compelling moment, unless you are fully ready to be responsible, without any speck of regret, for the consequences of anything done out of immaturity! Let us get matured whilst we grow and let us grow in maturity

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Maturity is knowing when and where we can show our attitude. - Giridhar Alwar.

Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things ....... @R$H

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

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

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.

Maturity is knowing everybody has their own persception and they are right when we see them from their perspective.

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit the past the present and the future all at once.

Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut.

Maybe I am an Old Soul among Young Bodies.

Maturity begins in acceptance of your flaws and matures when you can openly laugh at them. Very few have a matured maturity.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.

Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.

Maturity understands that there’s darkness in the world but that there’s no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

Maturity --- when you find this urgent need to react to everything.

Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

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

Maturity is the light for the buds to bloom!

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

Maturity is when you can understand someone's silences and the pauses between those silences...

Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.