Quotes About Maturity

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Excellence cannot happen in the kind of environment that values time constraints above all else, and you certainly cannot harmonize anything within the Gong Dao Bei until arriving at that keen level of spiritual and emotional maturity where a deep appreciation of the ultimate opportunity is felt and understood.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Behavior that was cute when you were in your twenties becomes aggravating in your thirties, pathetic in your forties and tragic in your fifties.

Parents seem to embrace, almost unquestioningly, this bizarre, superstitious belief in infant clairvoyance, as though their "innocent" offspring have access to deep truths lost to them, to the parents—lost to maturity, cynicism, compromise. It's one of our most esteemed cultural archetypes: the Prescient Child.

The older a man gets...the longer it takes for him to get a grin organized.

He was about forty, with the smooth weathered look of a man who keeps himself in shape with handball and self-esteem.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.