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“Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.”

World Ability Maturity

Author:Oren Arnold

“Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.”

Believe Persons Real Humanity Ability Imagine Maturity Believe In You

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.”

Ability Kindness Maturity Thoughtful

Book:The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.”

Long Bigs Ability Judgment Maturity Big Picture Haul Long Haul

Author:Ann Landers

“Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.”

Ability Situation Projects Sticks Perseverance Heavy Finished Maturity Spite Opposition Sweat Discouraging Setback

Author:Ann Landers

“Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.”

People Knows Way Persons Able Faces Differences Ability Violence Proud Circumstances Destruction Defeat Complaining Compromise Settling Maturity Frustration Mature Discomfort Mature Person

Author:Ann Landers

“Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.”

People Littles Action Ability Decision Possibility Endless Maturity Accomplished Exploring Doing Nothing Immature Endless Possibilities Immature People

Author:Ann Landers

“Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.”

Persons Energy Ability Missing Lows Mark Aim Refuse Expected Settling Maturity Mature Mediocrity Harness Aim High Mature Person

Author:Ann Landers

“Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”

Jobs Ability Bears Injustice Spending Maturity

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.”

World Ability Maturity Imperfect A Perfect World Imperfect World

Book:Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections

Source: Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections

“Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.”

Reality Ability Relate Maturity

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.”

Ability Disappointment Enormous Maturity Contradiction

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.”

Source: Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)

“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.”

“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”

World Needs May Children Helping Spiritual Mother Ability Wise Son Blessing Activity Intellectual Blessed Motherhood Maturity Broads Association Manhood Scope Threshold Thrice Babyhood

Author:Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“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.”