If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. ~ Mary Beth Danielson

Maturity means reacquiring the seriousness one had as a child at play. ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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. ~ Ann Landers

Maturity is coming to terms with that other part of yourself. ~ Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~ e.e. cummings

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." ~ Sydney J. Harris

"How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!" ~ May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

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