Quotes About Maturity

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience

By maturity, he meant that he learned to control those more youthful impulses, not that he was no longer stung or hurt or angry. It is not that you always know what to do or how to do it, it is that you are able to tamp down the emotions and anxieties that get in the way of seeing the world as it is. You can see through them, and that will see you through.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts." Ramana Maharshi

Freedom is only given to those who can handle the consequences that come with it

Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then I have grown some in these 61 years. I have learned and become a better person. And from that maybe it's the years ahead that will be the richest of my life. A quiet man moving forward, gladly beyond all expectation.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Everybody's essentially alone', she'd told him, and he was beginning to see a lot of truth in that. Besides: now that he was older, and now that he was home, it might not even matter how the story turned out in the end.

Dan Rosenthal rose happily from his drawing board to shake hands on hearing there was a baby on the way. But after that brief ceremony, when we'd both sat down again, he peered at me reflectively. "How can you be a father," he asked, "when you still look like a son?" 

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.

Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child." Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me." - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)