Quotes About Maturity

You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.

She knew about young boys—she'd spent the last year taking care of them. They were tough and reckless and yet at the same time so very sweet and vulnerable. Their cheeks were soft and their eyes apologized even as they fought to assert their independence with too smart mouths.

One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life.

Sternly she tried to frown the unseemly sensation down. Burgeon, indeed. She had heard of dried staffs, pieces of mere dead wood, suddenly putting forth fresh leaves, but only in legend. She was not in legend. She knew perfectly what was due to herself. Dignity demanded that she should have nothing to do with fresh leaves at her age; and yet there it was--the feeling that presently, that at any moment now, she might crop out all green.

There were many things she disliked more than anything else, and one was when the elderly imagined they felt young and behaved accordingly.

It's very awkward when you aren't so old inside as you are outside. For years I've been trying to be dignified, and I'm always being tripped up by a kind of apparently incurable natural effervescence.

I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant . But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

But we didn't fit, he and I. He thought it was because he was too old. He was older, and compared to the age I was I did think he was ancient. He was in his sixties then. Well, now I know that your sixties feel the same as all the other ages, and your seventies. You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.

Ell somriu. Es una noia amable, encantadora i intel·ligent, tot i que ja no és tan espavilada com quan era petita. Això, de vegades, l'entristeix. Fa una mena de feina que se li menja l'esperit. Està molt sola. Això segur. És com observar com es va erosionant.

Getting old is pathetic if you use it as an excuse for no longer being responsible.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

you know, one never realises how much one has changed with the years. We carry an inward image of ourselves, I think, which remains forever the same.

Archie materialized, a vision of how aging men delude themselves into believing they have achieved peak allure.

Perhaps they're opening up a world I'm only just starting to see the edges of. An adult world. It's scary and I don't like it.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.

He who knows more is more responsible.