Quotes About Maturity

didn't even know that Dani knew Laurie and Andy. My instinct is to complain about this; I hate when people pay attention to my birthday. I especially hate when people do things behind my back, even when they are well-intentioned. But I don't want to be an asshole; Dani went out of her way to do something nice. It's going to happen anyway, so there's nothing to be gained by acting like my normal, idiotic self. It's possible I may be maturing.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

If we don't resolve the key issues at each stage, we may get stuck and be considered immature by our peers.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Boys dream of war. But men can dream of peace.

I didn't want to be responsible for Alisa; I had a hard enough time being responsible for myself.

The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

En la primera mitad de la vida lo que más importa es la apariencia externa, pero cuando entramos en la segunda sólo nos mantienen los cimientos, los pilares ocultos donde se sienta la estructura de nuestra personalidad.

Nos hacemos mayores, pero no nos hacemos mejores.

grown women don't make mistakes; they make decisions!

Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down.

Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit the past the present and the future all at once.

To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity; we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.

The thing about not having parents is you don't have anyone to tell you you're heading down a path paved with grossly inaccurate expectations of what the world owes you.

It would have been a good occasion to smoke a pipe had I owned one and had I been forty years older.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

after a woman has reached a sort of final maturity, her soul has unfolded like a fireflower and no amount of time can extinguish the flame or attenuate the colors.

The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away — it's just like a really long, bad cold.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Children know nothing beyond the upbringing they have. It is only adults who regret what they lacked.

I am an adult person who is not answerable to children.

Six-year-olds can't be assholes," Mary Alice says. "The fact that you think they can says a lot." "Yeah, it says that you've clearly never met a six-year-old.

He must have broken dozens of hearts in his day, for even now he reminded me of nothing so much as a magnificently grizzled old lion. He might be winding down, but life was not yet finished with him.