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quotes by topic Maturity

" There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!' "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Maturity , Three

" Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. "

Oswald Chambers

Spiritual , Maturity , Years

" There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. "

Discipline , Christian , Maturity

" 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. "

Life , Maturity , Growth

" Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing. "

Maturity , adulthood

" For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hunger; especially is this the case with well-brought-up girls, who have been taught that they could not possibly like to kiss a man unless they loved him. "

Bertrand Russell

Intimacy , Maturity

" There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these distant sails should bear down towards her, and one should come, in whose hand she would lay her own, and they two would flee to the far East. But as the changeless years went by and brought him not, the girl grew sullen, and a sense of wrong possessed her, for the older she grew, the clearer became her consciousness of a world beyond her, and the greater her longing to seek it.("The Serpent's Head") "

Charles Dickens

Maturity , escape