Imagine that you are experiencing an unpleasant night dream: You are in the ocean, swimming; you have gone out too far; you look back toward the shore and see that there is very little hope of rescue. Even though you shout your lungs out, no one can hear you. . . . You struggle and strive to reach the shore, and, of course, the harder you fight, the harder the ocean fights you. There is only one thing left for you to do — drown. Yes, drown — but wait! In your fight, you shouted and someone heard you, came over and shook you, woke you up, and behold the miracle! The drowning self disappeared; the ocean disappeared; the struggle disappeared. You awakened and found that you had never left your comfortable home. All that was necessary in order to be released from the struggle was to awaken! —Joel Goldsmith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: reality perception mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. . . . Suddenly I awakened, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. —Madeleine L'Engle More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Age is no guarantee of maturity. —Lawana Blackwell More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My Father taught me how to be a man — and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants. —Kevin Smith More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. —Jules Feiffer More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. —Helen Hayes More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. —Fritz Kunkel More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. —Eve Babitz More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. —Doctor Who More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: maturity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. —Vannevar Bush More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. —Sir Arthur Eddington More about this quote Tags: mathematics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email