M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.”
“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance
of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor
cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp
personal "truths" still emerging into perception.
To grasp and to shape them.”
Source: The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry
“Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border.”
Source: How to Age Disgracefully
“Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.”
“Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.”
“Mature love is like mature infinity: there is no such thing!”
Source: Success, Love, Poetry.
“Mature love is loving, not being loved.”
“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.”
Source: Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life
“Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.”
“Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.”
“Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom
“Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.”
“Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation.”
“Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.”
“Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.”
Source: The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness
“Mature Spirituality is not based on seeking perfection, on achieveing some imaginary sense of purity. It is based on the capacity to let go and to love. To open the heart to all that is. Without ideals heart can turn the sufferings and imperfections we encounter into the path of compassion. In this nondealistic practise the divine can shine through even in acts of ignoarnce and fear, inviting us to wonder at the mystery of all that is. We can protect one another, yet in this there is no judgement, no blame. For we seek not to perfect the world perfect our love for what is on this earth.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.”
“Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.”
“Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.”
“Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.”
“Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.”
“maturity ... is letting things happen.”
“MATURITY AND AGING ARE NOT THE SAME, MATURITY IS FOR THE SOUL AND AGING IS FOR THE FLESH”
“Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.”
“Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.”
Source: The Haunting of Charles Dickens
“Maturity begins in acceptance of your flaws and matures when you can openly laugh at them. Very few have a matured maturity.”
“Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.”
“Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.”
“Maturity,” Bokonon
tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless
laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
Source: Cat’s Cradle
“Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.”
“Maturity Can be defined in only One Word
Understanding”
“Maturity cannot be measured by height or age, think ahead!”
“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”
“Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence”
“Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!”
“Maturity comes with experience, not age.”
“Maturity comes with the experience not with the age.”
“Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.”
“Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.”
Source: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
“Maturity doesn't arrive with age but with the weight of experiences and the strength of our efforts”
“Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.”
“Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows.
In this act of ancestral remembrance and acceptance may be found a light by which to see our children safely home.”
Source: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
“Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.”
Source: The Weak Point Dealer
“Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.”
Source: Don't blame the mirror
“Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Maturity in any relationship makes the practice of love comfortable.”
“Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?”
“Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.”
“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.”
“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.”
Source: Effective Biblical Counseling