A Quote by Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

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Change Creating Endlessly Exist Go Mature Oneself

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Henri Bergson
French - Philosopher
October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

David Duchovny

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

Ariel Pink

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

Witold Gombrowicz

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Karen Allen

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

Hisham Matar

People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.

Amy Winehouse

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

Kent Beck

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

Rajneesh

Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.

Sylvia Plath

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

Haruki Murakami

I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids.

Jessica Valenti

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

Byron Katie

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

Taylor Swift

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

Gary L. Thomas

The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.