Quotes About Maturity

Siempre decías que un hombre aprende cosas y cuando deja de aprenderlas es como todos los demás

un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d'excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu'un goût de défaite.

I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you? --The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars

Even in the later innings of our lives, we have unplumbed abilities, untaxed muscles, flexibility, growth.

The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Jessica stopped beside him: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'When do we lose it?' He murmured… 'We do indeed lose something,' she said.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

Growing older is to grow more wicked.

Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.

Our gods should mature as we mature.

And he thought: Growing older is to grow more wicked.

How soon this child must assume his manhood, Halleck thought. How soon he must read that form within his mind, that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: 'Please list your next of kin.

O sábio se automodela, o tolo só vive para morrer.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Dad says I'll understand when I grow up. He tells me that all the time now and I want to be big like him so that I can understand everything. It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything. I wish I could be like all the big people in the church, standing and kneeling and praying and understanding everything.

On the other hand, she was perfectly at her ease; doubtless the woman in her was not yet awakened; she was yet, as one might say, without sex. She was almost like a boy, frank, candid, unreserved.

had time to grow

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable--and that they will never know the one they love. Even when we kiss there is distance; it is a distance that cannot be bridged by romantic love and must be respected if a relationship is to succeed. The real metric by which we can gauge the authenticity of love is not how close we want to be, how merged and intermingled, but how far we can stand apart and still be together.

the yearnings of youth for passage into manhood through struggle.

A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.

When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one's way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn't take them too seriously.