Quotes About Maturity

I grow spiritually when I accept responsibility for my life.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.

Life is long if it is full.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Old age is the verdict of life.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.