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1 " In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart. "
― John Williams , Stoner
2 " The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil
3 " The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself. "
― Erich Fromm , Escape from Freedom
4 " In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
5 " Spiritual Maturity is not how much of the bible you think you know, or how well you can recite prayers, but rather, it is how you act as a person, and use your belief in a God to better your life and the lives of people around you. "
6 " 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
7 " It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures. "
― Harriet Beecher Stowe , The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
8 " Marriage is not a Fashion show but Maturity and Management "
9 " Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn't failure, but it's a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink what you wanted to do, in the first place,and see what you can change.Then that is called determination and that, will lead to you having success. "
10 " Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it. "
― Abhysheq Shukla , KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
11 " Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner. "
12 " Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers! "
13 " Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them. "
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14 " You have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy!“ Kennedy hisses." And you have the chest of one. "
15 " Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. " It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances." Now what am I supposed to say to that?" What do you have to say for yourself?" Friggin' mind reader. "
16 " At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all. For a million years humans had grown up with a personal daily knowledge of the vault of heaven. In the last few thousand years they began building and emigrating to the cities. In the last few decades, a major fraction of the human population has abandoned a rustic way of life. As technology developed and the cities were polluted, the nights became starless. New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science and technology. Without even noticing, just as astronomy entered a golden age most people cut themselves off from the sky, a cosmic isolationism that ended only with the dawn of space exploration. "
― Carl Sagan , Contact
17 " A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. "
― Robertson Davies
18 " MEDITATION & DEVOTION Most of our life issues and psychological problems occur from a lack of love and devotion. We are searching for love outside of ourselves. We are seeking to be loved, rather than to give love. A criteria of spiritual maturity is when we begin to give love, rather than to ask for love. Through developing love and devotion, we learn to love all beings. We develop our inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner source of love and truth, the divine source inside ourselves, through which we can let love flow through us, not only to benefit ourselves, but for the good of all. "
― Swami Dhyan Giten
19 " Spiritual maturity is a natural part of sentient evolution "
― Jonathan R. Banks , A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics (A New World #1)
20 " We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom....Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls. "
― Peggy Noonan , Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
