Quotes About Maturity

We think we are judging the younger generation in an objective manner, but we are merely succumbing to an illusion of perspective. It is also true that we are probably experiencing some hidden envy of their youth and mourning the loss of our own.

In fact, with experience and maturity we learn to worry less about others' intent and more about the effect others' actions are having on us. No longer are we in the game of rooting out unhealthy motives. And here's the good news. When we reflect on alternative motives, not only do we soften our emotions, but equally important, we relax our absolute certainty long enough to allow for dialogue— the only reliable way of discovering others' genuine motives.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. —Italo Calvino

He feels the way he used to feel passing love notes to girls in elementary school. Do you like me? the notes always read. Check yes or no. But he is older now and his question is older, too, not Do you like me? but Shouldn't someone?

It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.

Dan smiled, once again thinking how only someone so young could be so blasé about the fickle intricacies of fate.

He was carrying a little more weight, his hair greyer, but he looked healthy and relaxed, like a man who was comfortable with where he was in life and what lay ahead.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Seorang anak laki-laki yang tak mampu membela dirinya sendiri akan tumbuh menjadi pria yang tak mampu menghadapi masalah apapun.

In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who makes small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she has had sorrows, disappointment, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in the riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.

At the time, I must have been in my late twenties, a young man at the prime of his desires for a woman's company. Unlike many of the men I grew up with in my village- young men who had never seen the bare thigh of a grown woman and married, in part, for the license to at least cast their gaze upon such a sight- I did have some experience.

Ben presto si sarebbe ritrovato adulto. E allora non ci sarebbe stato modo di tornare indietro, perché l'essere adulto era qualcosa di simile a ciò che suo padre una volta aveva detto a proposito dell'essere un eroe di guerra. Quando si diventa eroe, si muore eroe.

Má»™t ??a tr? không bao gi? bi?t b?o v? mình s? tr? thành ng??i Ä'àn ông không bi?t b?o v? b?t c? th? gì

a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.

It's my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don't have to protect me all the time now.

She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

You're big enough to bite now, mosquito, so shut up.

Chocolate for dinner. Adulting at its finest.

Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier than she'd ever been in her life.

Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted.