Quotes About Maturity

What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them. Unless we're very lucky, the world teaches us to laugh more quietly, more coyly.

Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.

It would have been childish to give him the finger, so I didn't do it. Zane did it for me. Jason blew them a kiss. We

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity. If you're tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

Per loro sono una bambola cresciuta troppo.

There are two things people in their twenties do better than anyone else: get drunk and fall down and experience unplanned pregnancies. That, Greta, is your specialty. That is your area of expertise, dear girl, not calling other women out for failing to be tablecloth woke.

Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories

Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. Lawrence Durrell in Clea, book three of the epic Alexandria Quartet - which I am reading for the third time since my early 20s...relishing its superb prose and enigmatic insights into the nature of love.

Cheer up, me boyo, it takes a lifetime to grow. People haven't the patience any more.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.