Thought for the Day 12/15/2023
Friday Tale - What is Maturity?
- Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.
- Maturity is patience, the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain.
- Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of opposition and discouraging setbacks.
- Maturity is unselfishness -- responding to the needs of others, often at the expense of one's own desires or wishes.
- 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 right, the mature person need not say, "I told you so."
- Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities, then do nothing.
- Maturity means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in the crisis. The immature are masters of the alibi--confused and disorganized. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions which never materialize.
- Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change.
~ from Jim Gentil's Positive Thinking e-newsletter
Do not be children in your thinking;
but in your thinking be mature.
~ 1 Corinthians 14:20
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