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1 " Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. "
― Graham Greene , The Comedians
2 " Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. "
― Bruce Lee
3 " Infantile love follows the principle: " I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: " I am loved because I love." Immature love says: " I love you because I need you." Mature love says: " I need you because I love you. "
4 " We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. "
― Anaïs Nin
5 " 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 Hesse , Peter Camenzind
6 " You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. "
― Joseph Campbell , A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
7 " Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat. "
― Bill Watterson
8 " To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. "
― Henri Bergson
9 " Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created perfect, and despite the inevitability that we loose some of that perfection when we mature and develop in the midst of others who are wounded, we always retain the capacity to become perfect once again. The soul may be buried deeply, but as long as our hearts beat there remains hope. "
― Daniel Mackler , Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment
10 " When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables. "
― Criss Jami , Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
11 " I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
12 " Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest. "
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13 " He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime. "
― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The House of the Seven Gables
14 " There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live. It would be unbearably obvious that death is inscribed in everything that constitutes life, that any moment of your existence may be only a breath away from being the last. We would be continuously devastated by the magnitude of that inescapable fact. Still, as we mature into our mortality, we begin to gingerly dip our horror-tingling toes into the void, hoping that our mind will somehow ease itself into dying, that God or some other soothing opiate will remain available as we venture into the darkness of non-being. "
― Aleksandar Hemon
15 " We need to mature in the knowledge of God and His word, and then our faith will grow as well "
16 " Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing. "
― Imaj , Harlow
17 " Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. "
― T.S. Eliot , The Sacred Wood
18 " Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same effort in their own neighborhood or community or state? Why do young suburbanites, say in Chicago, want to go to Kentucky or Tennessee to help people but not want to spend that same time to go to the inner city in their own area to help with justice issues? I asked this question to a mature student in my office one day, and he thought he had a partial explanation: 'Because my generation is searching for experiences, and the more exotic and extreme the better. Going down the street to help at a food shelter is good and it is just and some of us are doing that, but it's not an experience. We want experiences. "
― Scot McKnight
19 " The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. "
― Mortimer J. Adler , How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
20 " Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand. "
― Nalini Singh , Archangel's Heart (Guild Hunter, #9)
