There is a special formula to friendships to take into account when it comes to creating lasting relationships. These quotes about maturity and friendship capture the essence of building lasting friends.
“A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one’s feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.”
“A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.”
“Age is just a number. Maturity is a choice.”
“Age is no guarantee of maturity.”
“I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.”
“I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe.”
“I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.”
“I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.”
“If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.”
“Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.”
“Maturity begins when you feel you are right about something without feeling the need to prove someone else wrong.”
“Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!”
“Maturity comes when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along.”
“Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.”
“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 is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
“Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.”
“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”
“Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.”
“Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.”
“Maturity is knowing when to be immature.”
“Maturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start understanding small things..”
“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”
“Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.”
“Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult. But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.”
“Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.”
“Maturity is the ability to discern the ignorant without discussing them.”
“Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.”
“Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.”
“Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change.”
“Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”
“Maturity is the moment one regains one’s innocence.”
“Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you’d have the time of your life.”
“Maturity is to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.”
“Maturity is when we can treat ourselves in our own way rather than within the automatic ways of our parents in childhood.”
“Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.”
“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing.”
“Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.”
“One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.”
“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology.”
“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
“Youth condemns; maturity condones.”
“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
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