Quotes About Maturity

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom--which is bordered on all sides by isolation--is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Keep out of this, please, will you, Mildred? A child isn't a toy." "Oh," she said, "they grow up. Time does it more than fathers and mothers. The parents take too much credit.

Ramona je ušutjela a Herzog je rekao: - Istina je - još mnogo toga trebam nau?iti. Ali marljiv sam. Radim na tom i stalno se osje?a napredak. Vjerujem da ?u biti u odli?noj formi na samrtnoj postelji. Oni koji su dobri umiru mladi, ali ja sam bio pošte?en toga da se izgra?ujem da bih mogao završiti život dobar kao an?eo.

I may be old enough for my second childhood, but at least the first is well behind me.

Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature.

Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn't believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

The Russian Jews, he concludes, can make an important contribution to the necessary revival of religious feeling. Their totalitarian experience has matured their souls as well as toughened their minds.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.

relational maturity.

Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

El diablo es viejo; envejeced, pues, para comprenderlo.

When your thirtieth year is over, A man's as good as dead.

Unhappily, moreover, on such occasions, a multitude of painful discoveries about my own sex were forced upon me; and, in truth, I was then wiser, as a girl of sixteen, than I now am, now that I scarcely understand myself. Why are we so wise when young,—so wise, and ever growing less so?

No es que, como se dice, la vejez nos haga niños, sino que nos alcanza siendo aún auténticos niños.

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.

Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.

Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?

No nation gains the power of judgment except it can pass judgment on itself. But to attain this great privilege takes a very long time.

La vejez no nos vuelve infantiles, como dicen, sino que nos encuentra todavía cual verdaderos niños.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame." "?? ???? ?????????? ????? ??????? ???, ??? ?????" (in Russian)

One need only grow old to become gentler in one's judgments. I see no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.

Un ramo giovane si innesta volentieri e facilmente sul vecchio tronco sul quale non s'innesterebbe facilmente più nessun ramo adulto.