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

Maturity is to give up immediate pleasure or happiness for long-term gain or benefits. Maturity is patience, humility, humbleness, and modesty. Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse.  Maturity is to accept faults when done wrong.  Maturity is to have respect for others. Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Maturity means dependability, keeping one’s word, coming through in a crisis.

The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they do nothing. The immature are masters of the alibi and excuses. They are the confused and the disorganized. Their lives are full of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business, and good intentions that somehow never materialize.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that, which should be changed – and the wisdom to know the difference.