Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard
A mature person is one who is 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 all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably. Eleanor Roosevelt
A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play. Friedrich Nietzsche
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward
Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. Sydney J. Harris
Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one’s decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one’s own true gifts. Mary Pipher
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. Wilhelm Stekel
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. James Stephens.
Minds ripen at very different ages. Stevie Wonder