maturity

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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.

I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Be content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.