Quotes About Maturity

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

The nature of life is to grow.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.