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May these quotes about Maturity inspire and motivate you.
Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Anais Nin
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts
filed away just below the conscious level.
- Joyce Brothers
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't take it personally -
it's not usually about you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It really does matter when we tell even the slightest untruth.
Even something as well intentioned as
telling someone their ill-finished
hair style looks wonderful will backfire -
certainly karmically, and usually practically.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing
but in the midst of living.
- Anais Nin
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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