Quotes About Maturity

My friends and family would say I'm in an arrested mental state of development.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening this world is that we live in.

The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

After 40, every day is a bonus. We should know how to live our lives to the fullest.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

As you grow older, life seems funnier.

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward.

She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.

Once we know that something turned out all right, that we navigated a rough patch more or less intact, it becomes harder to pity our younger self or remember the grief and confusion, the dread of the disaster that didn't happen, the panic of the deer frozen in the headlights of the car that stopped in time.

One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren't.

love the way you take on new things, your drive to learn. I love how you work, how you have this little-girl look on your face when you finish something you've never tried before. I love watching you skip across the meadow with Ruth. I love seeing you laugh with Miriam and hang on Elizabeth's wisdom. I love the whole idea of growing old with you and waking up to you every morning for the rest of my life.

Cuando yo era niño, hablaba,pensaba y razonaba como un niño; pero cuando crecí, dejé atrás las cosas de niño. 1 CORINTIOS 13:11

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.