Quotes about Maturity

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

I'm beginning to realize the pleasure of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman.

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine...

We begin to be mature adults only when we cease to whine and revile and commence to search for the hidden justice which regulates our lives.

The saint was once a sinner; the sinner will one day be a saint. The sinner is the child; the saint is the grown man. He who separates himself from sinners, regarding them as wicked men to be avoided, is like a man avoiding contact with little children because they are unwise, disobedient, and play with toys.