Quotes About Emotional Maturity

#1. The Anti-christ of mental health and emotional maturity.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Jack Kornfield

#3. A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

Edward Adam Strecker

#5. I'm sorry I have the emotional maturity of a grapefruit." He grinned, his fangs glinting. "You don't have the emotional maturity of a grapefruit. A tangerine, maybe, but I think you've got to work your way up to grapefruit.

Molly Harper

#6. I'm sorry if I have the emotional stability of a teeter-totter right now, but that's better than you, who has the emotional maturity of a rock.

Chanda Hahn

#7. Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#8. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

Anthony Storr

#9. John Calvin called the Book of Psalms 'an anatomy of all parts of the soul.' All the range of emotions are expressed; the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.

Kevin Swanson

#10. Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Rand Olson

#11. Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity.

Pope Francis

#12. But one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if "closeness" means "sameness.

Harriet Lerner

#13. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Dan Brown

#15. I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Anne Carson

#16. Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Maeve Binchy

#17. Divorce isn't caused because 50% of marriages end in gayness.

Jon Stewart

#18. 'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.

Jon Landau

#19. A secret is safer in the heart than on the tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. According to the Cambridge dictionary, an alpha male is the most powerful and most successful in any group; every man wants to be the male being described in this definition.

Ryan King

#21. Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Helene Deutsch

#22. Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. I don't want any more magic in my life, your love is enough for me!

Avijeet Das

#24. Maturity means acknowledging that Romantic love might constitute only a narrow, and perhaps rather mean-minded, aspect of emotional life, one principally focused on a quest to find love rather than to give it; to be loved rather than to love. Children

Alain De Botton

#25. In his seminal article, "The Capacity to Be Alone," psychoanalyst and child development expert D. W. Winnicott asserted that the ability to be alone "is one of the most important signs of maturity in emotional development.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#26. emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

Peter Scazzero

#27. Zeb was kindergarten teacher
a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

Molly Harper