Quotes by Maturity My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet. W. H. Auden maturitysorryyears For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. W. Somerset Maugham maturityageperfect The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things. Walter Lippmann maturitynamesdiscovery Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity. Washington Irving progressmaturityanimal Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions. Washington Irving maturitynatureart So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. Wayne Gerard Trotman yearningyouthmaturity The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry decaymaturitygrowth Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. Wes Fesler respecting-othersmaturityresponsibility While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain. Wes Fesler maturityrainchildren Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. Wes Fesler mankindmaturitywise The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. Wilfrid Sheed glowingmalesmaturity The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one Wilhelm Stekel maturityinspirationalmen The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love. William C. Menninger maturityemotionalreality Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world. William C. Menninger capacity-to-lovematuritypeople Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty. William Morris Davis maturityriverslong Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. William James maturityspiritualchildren Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation. William O. Douglas maturitygovernmentacceptance The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy. William O. Douglas common-sensematuritypeople Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have. William S. Burroughs cautionmaturity It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged. Witold Gombrowicz maturityphrasesmen«2425262728293031323334»
