Quotes About Maturity

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.

Misjudgement is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

She knew she'd been unhappy there. She'd said it so often, even she was tired of her moaning. Now she rubbed at the thorn and stinking fur on her cloak and wondered how she could've been so hurt by cold words and sharp looks. Seemed foolish and childish and weak. But that's what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you've been.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.

Terry is sure that Ig has never even kissed another girl, let alone fucked one, and he has wished for a while now that Iggy had more experience. Not because Terry didn't want his brother to be with Merrin, but because...well, because. Because love requires context. Because first relationships are by their very nature immature. So Merrin wanted them both to have a chance to grow up. So what?

Vapt vupt era uma das expressões preferidas de Mary Poppins, e Harper, desde que era pequena, gostava sempre que possível de substituir os palavrões por expressões típicas de Julie Andrews. Isso lhe proporcionava uma sensação firme de controle e ao mesmo tempo a fazia lembrar de ser a melhor pessoa que pudesse.

At first glance Bing knew that although this man might have passed for forty or so, he was much older than that. His eyes had the soft, faded look of sea glass; they were old eyes, unfathomably old. He had a long, harrowed face, wise and kindly, although he had an overbite and his teeth were a little crooked. It was the sort of face, Bing supposed, that some people would describe as ferretlike, but in profile it also would've looked just fine on currency.

The signal from Radio Adulthood was sharpening by then, making its way through the usual static of adolescence.

Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

But to lose my idealism, to quit believing in the ability of human beings to rise above their baser instincts, was to become old and bitter and of no service to anyone, not even myself.

The sun was starting to shine bright by the time we rolled out of the yard, and while Daddy drove and tried to drink his coffee, I ate my buttered biscuit, and for the first time began to feel that I had stepped over the line of being a child, and into being a man.

Your age doesn't matter," said The Big Guy, which was spoken like someone who had never fucked an old lady. I am not suggesting that I have....Oh hell. A few times, at fundraisers for charities back in the States.

Time is like that. Especially when you're young. It can fix a lot of things, and what it doesn't fix, you forget, or at least push back and only bring out at certain times, which is what I did, now and then, late at night, just before sleep claimed me.

I was starting to feel as if I were getting along in years and the recent ones were angry at me. By the time you're fifty you start to realize just how much of your time on earth you've wasted.

At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.

Thirty's nothing. You ain't did nothing. You seen 30 summers. As far as youth is concerned, it's the same mind really.

When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. When you stay on the high road and keep your joy, you take away their power." - Joel Osteen

The fact is, we grow in difficult times. That's when character is developed. ... Growth comes when you have to overlook an insult, forgive a wrong, and do the right thing even when the wrong thing is happening.

You shouldn't be constantly uptight, worried, rebuking, resisting, and trying to fix things. It takes a mature person to say, "Everything is not perfect. I have some struggles and some situations I wish were different, but can I tell you that all is well? I'm at peace. I'm not upset. I know at the right time God will remove the weeds. Until then I'm going to relax and enjoy my life." First the Weed, Then the Harvest

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

Every storm you went through, every bad break, and every dark, lonely season deposited something on the inside. It pushed you to mature, pushed you to trust God in a greater way, pushed you to be more resilient and determined.