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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

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Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

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Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of ...more