While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.
I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.'
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Every industry, as it comes to a certain level of maturity, there is consolidation. In that consolidation, some fall, but the men will always be there. It is the boys that get sloughed, I would say.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
