Quotes about Maturity And Change

RICH I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been very important to you.

I'm getting older everyday, you know. I'm not like a fine wine that just gets better with age. I'm more like a good strong cheese. I can only be aged so long before I start to stink.

Things can't stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That's the way it's supposed to happen.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.

The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look back on his or her teenage years knows this.

Intendo dire", disse Alice, "che uno non può fare a meno di crescere." "Uno forse non può", disse Humpty Dumpty, "ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

But that's what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you've been.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I'm not the same person as when I was 15 and I might not be the same person in ten years.

Jo's angles are much softened, she has learned to carry herself with ease, if not grace.

but at St Xavier's they know the first rush of minds developed by sun and surroundings, as they know the half-collapse that sets in at twenty-two or twenty-three.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

Cuando yo era niño, hablaba,pensaba y razonaba como un niño; pero cuando crecí, dejé atrás las cosas de niño. 1 CORINTIOS 13:11

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.

Mi dicevo che la maturità consisteva nell'accettare la piega che aveva preso l'esistenza senza agitarsi troppo, tracciare un solco tra prassi quotidiana e acquisizioni teoriche, imparare a vedersi, a conoscersi in attesa di grandi cambiamenti. Giorno