Maturity - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt. — Leo Baeck

I reached 1400 weeks, the age of maturity. The age when you were no longer considered a child. It was when you became a scrub and the reality of what the rest of your life would be like became suddenly and brutally apparent. The old-timers called it sweet sixteen, but there wasn't anything sweet about it. I — Maria V. Snyder Inside Out

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. — Madeleine L'Engle Two-Part...

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

There's truths you have to grow into.

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not...

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.

But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was an...

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

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It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

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