Quotes About Maturity

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. —ARNOLD H. GLASOW

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with time!

During the teenage years, we get irritated by many things (almost everything) too soon and too often. As we grow up, we realize that only those things bother us that resemble us or are part of us. The things that are not part of us never affect us....more we realize this dichotomy, the closer we get to our own selves.

La beauté ne est que superficielle, mais mensonges horribles à l'os. beauté meurt et se estompe, mais laide tient sa propre! Cultiver la beauté intérieure qui ne se effacera jamais, mais grandit et mûrit avec le temps!

Life is a great teacher, and also a best trader. Life teaches you the great lessons, each time taking a little bit of your innocence away.

med ålder kommer erfarenhet och kompetens. viktigast av allt, ger det en med en tydlig vision att se genom timglaset i livet, som mer sand redan har rymt genom det med tiden. som en tidig morgon dr

Most of the positive things in life are often preceded by negativities - paradoxically! For example, we gain amazing strength only after realizing our weaknesses. We learn to love unconditionally only after experiencing the hate directed towards us. We become more tolerant and proponents of Equality only after the discrimination that world throws at us. We thus grow and mature with the flow of life, always negating the negativity, and moving upwards and onwards. - Deo

Most of the positive things in life are often preceded by negatvities, paradoxically. For example, we gain strength only after realizing our weaknesses. We learn to love unconditionally only after experiencing the hate directed towards us. We become more tolerant and proponents of equality only after the discrimination that world throws at us. We thus grow and mature with the flow of life, always negating the negativity, and moving upwards and onwards.

Pendant les années de l'adolescence, nous obtenons irrité par beaucoup de choses (presque tout) trop tôt et trop souvent. Que nous grandissons, nous nous rendons compte que seuls ces choses nous qui nous ressemblent ou qui sont une partie de nous dérangent. Les choses qui ne font pas partie d'entre nous ne nous affectent .... plus nous nous rendons compte de cette dichotomie, plus nous nous rapprochons de nous-mêmes.

You don't treat me like a child." He smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an adult.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

He took her hand in his and knelt before her. Valkyrie looked at him. He was serious. (...)'Dude, I'm sixteen.' 'I love you.' 'That doesn't make me any older. Stand up.' 'Not until you say yes.' 'You're going to shuffle around on your knees for the rest of your life? Stand up, for God's sake.' 'Be my wife.' 'Shut the hell up.

Well, yeah, but she looks , like, twenty-two. And she acts like a four-year-old.

With age comes wisdom, you ever hear that?" "I did, but I've found that wisdom has a cut-off point of around one hundred and twenty years. Once you reach that, you're really as wise as you're going to get.

I keep imagining that one of these days I'll grow up and become someone who knows what they're doing, but so far that hasn't happened.

I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is.

She'd had a lot of practice at closing off the part of herself that felt sad about things like this.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.