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"Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."
"The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit."
"Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have."
"Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood."
"The only sure way to maturity is through pain."
"One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me."
"Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are."
"I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity."
"A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up."
"art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden."
"The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus is always free to pursue the Integral Way. He studies the teachings of the masters. He dissolves all concepts of duality. He pours himself out in service to others."
"It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity."
"If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity."
"Grown men do not need leaders."
"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."
"Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity."
"God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity."
"Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death."
"There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering."
"Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief."
