"To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature."
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"Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches."
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"That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the next thing you know you're yelling or throwing something or hitting someone. At that time, begin to accept the fact that that's "enraged buddha." If you feel jealous, that's "jealous buddha." If you have indigestion, that's "buddha with heartburn." If you're happy, "happy buddha"; if bored, "bored buddha." In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation."
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"Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation."
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"Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity, Age is but a number, it's all about maturity."
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"I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that."
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"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity."
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"Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies."
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"Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner."
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"I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with."
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"When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow."
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"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares"
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"The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen."
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"Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult."
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"And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat."
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"What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization."
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"The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance."
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"The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job."
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"Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments."
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"There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?"
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