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Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of read more
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and read more
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
What power had I
before I learned to yield?
Shatter me Great Wind!
I shall possess the field!
Richard Wilbur
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What power had I
before I learned to yield?
Shatter me Great Wind!
I shall possess the field!
Richard Wilbur
a stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.
