Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision."
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Maturity
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other."
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea."
Edwin Louis Cole
Author, Speaker
"Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!"
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"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."
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"Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education."
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"There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day."
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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
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"She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak."
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"India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age"
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"Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity."
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"By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future."
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"Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next."
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"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."
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"Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels."
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"Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows."
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"Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive."
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"There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'"
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"It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him."
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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."
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"Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves."
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"I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity."
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"When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style."
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