Quotes About Maturity

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

He wasn't the first man she'd been with, and that hadn't been Bill back home either. It had been a boy she met on holiday when she was fifteen. She had decided it was time for her to have sex, the way someone else might decide it was time to get a driver's license, and she'd gone ahead with it. Pragmatic, that's the way she'd always been.

They might curse you, even despise you for doing so, but it took strong measures to ensure that a boy lived long enough to become a man.

It was too much for them, it was a story they had forgotten a long time ago, when they were thirteen and became men and locked their emotions away so they might navigate the cruelty of the world.

The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman.

Hesse in his mature years suffered from the tragic and painful state of being separated from his true self, to which doctors refer offhandedly as depression.

But a person who is no longer a child and has the courage to mature by wanting to see the truth must be capable of clearly and unequivocally rejecting the cruelty he or she suffered. Only then will he or she refuse to contribute to the success of evil.

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.

It occurred to him, and had occurred to him before, that there was after all something to be said for dealing with things the way most people of his age seemed to do. It was sensible perhaps to stop noticing, to believe that this was still the same world they were living in, with some dreadful but curable aberrations, never to understand how the whole arrangement had altered.

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Now there were grown men and women who would try to look like teen-agers until

People grow up by living.

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to strone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. Watch out what faces you make,. Youll freeze that way. (The Lovely Bones)

I knew gloves meant you were an adult and mittens meant you weren't.

This little girl's grown up by now, she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

People grow up by living. I want to live.

When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone.

He had had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

La experiencia. Más tarde o más temprano, todos acabamos por tenerla. Para eso, lo único que hay que hacer es ir viviendo.