#maturity

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for?

You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now, and keep putting things off, you will remain without improving, living and dying as an ordinary person.

From this moment, then, deem yourself worthy of living as a mature person who is making progress.

The condition and characteristic of a vulgar person is that he never looks for either help or harm from himself, but only from externals.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

We must be able to stand alone before we can truly stand together.

Shame is an ornament to the young, but a disgrace to the old.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The master said: 'At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.'

Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. The more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being.

A mature person has the quality of responsiveness. He does not react, he responds.