Quotes about Maturity And Change

I don't think you change from the time you're 16 until you die. Maybe your body changes, and you have different experiences, but I think you become a fully conscious soul with full abilities. Souls are eternal, and if you keep your marbles until you croak in your 90s or your 100s, you're the same.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

The curtain has just come down on childhood

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

In other words, ten. Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

We cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning- for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

and another who must have been pushing fifty, which seemed ancient for a life change.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and till Doomsday

Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon....

I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now...

This was the summer in which they all abruptly began to grow older, their bodies becoming troublesome and awkward and even dangerous and their voices not to be trusted.

I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

Youth inhabits his face like a hermit crab its borrowed shell. He will outgrow his shelter sooner than he thinks. Only then will he know what it is to be naked.