Some Inspirational Quotes about Maturity

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

-Madeleine L'Engle, author, 1918-2007

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 "A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity." 

 - Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer, 1884-1962

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."             

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court jurist, 1841-1935

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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

- William Somerset Maugham, author, 1874-1965

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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

- Henri Bergson, philosopher, 1859-1941