Maturity

Maturity

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence.

Maturity is patience. It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of long-term gain.

Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks.

Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat without complaint or collapse.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say “I was wrong.” And, when you’re right, you need not say, “I told you so.”

Maturity is making a decision and following through. The immature spends their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing.

Maturity means dependability, keeping one’s word and coming through in a crisis. The immature are master of the alibi. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions.

And- based on the Serenity Prayer, Maturity is the art of living in peace with what we cannot change, the courage to change what we know should be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~~Ann Landers