Quotes About Maturity

Do you have to live to be a hundred to really grow up?

We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.

Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men —even children. You turn into an Oba-san the instant you lose the will to evolve.

he who will not pass through this curriculum is helped very little by the fact that he was born in the most enlightened age.

People change when they get older. They get more . . . cautious. They've been hit harder and more often. It doesn't mean they're stupid or timid—Mom

We won't attain maturity unless we cultivate the wisdom to discriminate which deeds of our ancestors we need to reject and which achievements we need to take inspiration from.

Not a lad anymore; old flesh doesn't heal like young. Learn to like it; when you're hurting, you're not dead.

The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?

The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things.

How young he was when he made the surprisingly adult resolution to escape from the unpalatable reality of dreams into the slightly more acceptable illusions of his everyday, walking life!

His father said to him: 'See now. You pay your way. I've made a man of you.' But what man That's what fathers never know. Not in advance. Not until it's too late

In his thirteenth year he was old enough to play on the rocks at Scandal Point without having to be watched over by his ayah, Kasturba.

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys.

Fifteen years old! Okay, okay. In our part of the world that's not so young.

Pagas lo que debes. He hecho de ti un hombre.» Pero ¿qué hombre? Eso es algo que los padres nunca saben. No lo saben de antemano; no lo saben hasta que ya es tarde.)

When we are born, we are not automatically human beings. We have to learn how to be human beings. And some of us get there and some of us don't.

Tik?jimas-Dievo dovana mums, o protas-m?s? paaugliškas maištas prieš j?. Suaug? mes visiškai atsid?sime tik?jimui, nes tam esame gim?.

Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.