Quotes about Maturity And Change

Chad Davidson

The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?" "I'll probably outgrow it," I said.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

and you start wondering whether that badness you've seen in yourself is really all that bad at all..." "Maybe that's just developing as a person, Sarah" I sighed, and look out at Little Bee "Well" I said. "Maybe this is a developing world.

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't believe how much my dad has matured. Or, 'You wouldn't believe how your dad used to be.' There's always lots of words about how much he's changed.

He has grown older, the skin around his eyes is cobwebbed with fine creases, and his hair's thinner, softer, suffused with gray. His brow has grown smoother.

I'm sick of the whole notion of the enduring female. GROW UP! 'Cause while you're going through your fifth puberty, the world is falling apart and I can't handle it! (Barbara Weston)

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.

With years, you change. You're not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add.

3. Finally, don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present! An innovation may have long-range impact; it may not reach its full maturity until twenty years later.

Stephen summarizes, "It's when you look back and you learn how much you've grown and changed.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.