Maturity quotations

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◆ I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

- Kenneth Cain99

◆ It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

- Arthur C. Clarke99

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

- Erin McCarthy99

◆ That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

- Philip Pullman99

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

- Michael Crichton99

◆ I can take care of myself, but I can't take care of myself and a child. I've decided to give myself up for adoption.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

- W.B. Yeats99

◆ Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

- Sherwood Smith99

◆ There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

- Criss Jami99

◆ There's truths you have to grow into.

- H.G. Wells99

◆ Immature people always want to win an argument even at the cost of a relationship. Mature people understand that its always better to lose an argument and win a relationship.

- Anurag Prakash Ray99

◆ Maturity is not measured by age, it's an attitude built by experience.

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