Quotes About Maturity

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

Everyone's a different person when they're younger. You evolve as a human being with knowledge and attitude and challenges and obstacles in life.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

Older and wiser and no better

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

a mature understanding of death appears to be one of the last milestones in the cognitive development and evolution of the human brain.

He cried like a man,not like a boy.Not like he was frustrated or hadn't gotten his way,but like life was bitter.Like his wounds couldn't be healed.

Grow up, Cadence. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

she had the cruelty of youth.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.