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T.H. White
“Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.”
T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn

Roy T. Bennett
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”
Roy T. Bennett

Paul Murray
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.”
Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

Diana Peterfreund
“There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?”
Diana Peterfreund

Pat Conroy
“The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.”
Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

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