Harry Herbert Miller famous quotes

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.
-- Harry Herbert Miller

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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.