Quotes About Maturity

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in

The whole notion of coolness was puerile.

Watching him fall down and pick himself back up, Perry mourned no longer being small enough that falling didn't hurt. He no longer even remembered how it felt to have the ground so unthreateningly proximate. Why had he been in such a hurry to grow up? It was as if he'd never experienced the grace of childhood.

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

You're entirely capable of doing things you aren't moved to do and refraining from things that you want to do. That doesn't make you Gandhi. It makes you an adult.

He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is something, being good.

The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

Me pasé la vida aprendiendo a sentir menos. Cada día sentía menos. ¿Eso es madurar? ¿O es algo peor? Uno no puede protegerse de la tristeza sin protegerse al mismo tiempo de la felicidad».

So, then why am I your son? Because Mom and I made love, and one of my sperm fertilized one of her eggs. Excuse me while I regurgitate. Don't act your age.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1882-1883). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?

a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Un padre más lúcido y menos enojado podría responder: "Es verdad, hijo, no fue tu decisión, fue la nuestra y estoy muy contento de haberla tomado. En cuanto a ti, de todos modos tendrás que hacerte responsable de tu vida como si la hubieras pedido si no quieres que acabe convirtiéndose en un desastre". Por

Kindern erzählt man Geschichten zum Einschlafen - Erwachsenen, damit sie aufwachen

Vivo y aprendo, vivo y maduro, vivo y crezco.

Ya cumplidos los cuarenta años, todo cambio es un símbolo detectable del pasaje del tiempo.

There's something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward.

And what it [a future myth] will have to deal with will be exactly what all myths have dealt with – the maturation of the individual, from dependency through adulthood, through maturity, and then to he exit; and then how to relate to this society and how to relate this society to the world of nature and the cosmos.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.