Quotes About Maturity

Choices were so easy when I was a child. Good guy versus bad guy, and the good guys always won. But I'm no longer a child.

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.

Move in silence & Let your success make all the noise

by the age of six he had realized that] it was useless to behave and maybe also to believe

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

La madurez consiste en saber posponer el placer inmediato para conseguir mejorar la situación a largo plazo.

Adulting was bullshit.

A mis cuarenta y diez, cuarenta y nueve dicen que aparento.

I prefer my first word, 'formidable.' But this was softened by joviality in youth and kindliness in maturity. Genius is formidable and so is goodness; he had both. It is useful in a picture sometimes to introduce a balancing figure to give scale, and I would choose the figure of W. H. Auden as one of comparable impressiveness and goodness, felt as formidable and friendly.

You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much younger. Some people said it occurred when the most important thing that would ever happen to you triggered something inside that stopped you from moving forward.

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

But that's what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you've been.

We're all like children, Rikke. The older you get, the more you realise the grown-ups won't suddenly walk in and set things right. You want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

Cause my mother says boys whine about what's done. Men decide what will be." "You always listen to your mother?" "I complain about it, but yes.

No hocus-pocus here. Just lots of living; it lends you some wisdom. Which I'm guessing is a trade-off for lost youth.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

The boys had grown since I'd last seen them. I wouldn't have recognized them in a group, but I find that the older I get, the more kids just look like kids. I don't really notice them as much as I used to. On the other hand, I could have instantly picked Harry out of a lineup of similarly marked German shepherds, were there ever a need to do so. Harry was a wonderful character. The boys were just boys.

John gestures with his hand again, this time seeming to refer to everything: the photographs, the letters, middle age, marriage. "If you live long enough, everything is complicated

I could be mad at you. I could scream at you. But I won't. You raised me to take care of myself, and I will.

ringing all the bells of adulthood.