Maturity Quotes

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.

~ Erich Fromm

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, The children are the hope of the future. And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food. Adults are the death of hope.

~ Peter David

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

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

~ Maya Angelou

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

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

~ Philip Pullman

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them, instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

~ Steve Maraboli

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

~ John C. Maxwell

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

~ T.s. Eliot

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

~ Criss Jami

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

~ Criss Jami

The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.

~ Wayne Cordeiro

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

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Andrew Chong

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

~ Karl R. Popper

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

~ William Shakespeare

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

~ Robert M. Price

And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.

~ Stephen King

You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

~ Eleanor Brownn

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life, you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

~ Erica Goros

When I say maturity, I mean an inner integrity. And this inner integrity comes only when you stop making others responsible, when you stop saying that the other is creating your suffering, when you start realizing that you are the creator of your suffering. This is the first step towards maturity: I am responsible. Whatsoever is happening, it is my doing.You feel sad. Is this your doing? You will feel very much disturbed, but if you can remain with this feeling, sooner or later you will be able to stop doing many things. This is what the theory of karma is all about. You are responsible. Don’t say society is responsible, don’t say that parents are responsible, don’t say the economic conditions are responsible, don’t throw the responsibility onto anybody. YOU are responsible.

~ Osho

There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

~ Amit Kalantri

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

~ Kamand Kojouri

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around their order's star and gemAnd growing ever darker, stony-faced,And these, their ladies, fragile, wan, but proppedHigh by their bodice, one hand loosely dropped,Small like its collar, on the toy King-Charles:How they surround each one of these who stoppedTo read and contemplate the objects d'art,Of which some pieces still are theirs, not ours.Whit exquisite decorum they allow usA life of whose dimensions we seem sureAnd which they cannot grasp. They were aliveTo bloom, that is be fair; we, to mature,That is to be of darkness and to strive.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions

~ Sunday Adelaja

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith.

~ Perry G. Downs

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.

~ Rob Liano

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

~ Amit Chatterjee