Quotes About Maturity

Crux sneered. "That's an awfully big word for a thirteen-year-old." Valkyrie resisted the urge to hit him. "Actually, it's not," she replied. "It's fairly standard. Also, I'm fourteen. Also, your beard's stupid." "Isn't this fun?" Skulduggery said brightly. "The three of us getting along so well.

What are men? Children who doubt.

To grow up is to endure the equivocal, to permit the ambiguous.

Perhaps the first mark of emotional maturity is to realise that there is an enormous gulf between the events of the world and what we do with them.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old Age.

Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

When you first give something in order to get something, you are a generous yajaman. If you demand something before you give something, you are a devata. As children you can be devatas, but to grow up means to be a yajaman. When you are able to give without expecting anything in return, you are the greatest yajaman.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its coastal waters. My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it. Being 'over seventy' is being old: suddenly I was aground on that fact and saw that the time had come to size it up.

That's the best thing about little sisters: they spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be. —Gemma Burgess

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. Earl

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.

Growing old is just a matter of throwing life away back; so you finally forgive even those that you have not begun to forget. It is that indifference which gives you your courage, which to tell the truth is no courage at all.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?