Quotes About Maturity

Si te enseñan las cosas bien desde pequeña, de mayor todo te cuesta menos, te convierte en alguien que parece haber nacido enseñada.

Non riuscivo più a essere innocente, dietro i pensieri c'erano altri pensieri, l'infanzia era finita.

When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults

La madurez consistía en aceptar el curso que había tomado la existencia sin agitarse demasiado, trazar un surco entre la práctica cotidiana y el aprendizaje teórico, aprender a verse, a conocerse a la espera de los grandes cambios

Mi dicevo che la maturità consisteva nell'accettare la piega che aveva preso l'esistenza senza agitarsi troppo, tracciare un solco tra prassi quotidiana e acquisizioni teoriche, imparare a vedersi, a conoscersi in attesa di grandi cambiamenti. Giorno

Aceptar que ser adultos es dejar de mostrarse, es aprender a ocultarse hasta desaparecer?

It's relaxing, I thought, I was wrong not to come sooner. I had a friend of my age with her own house, full of opulent, orderly things. That

said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following

Que bobagem pensar que é possível falar de si mesmo aos filhos antes que eles tenham pelo menos cinquenta anos. Querer ser vista por eles como uma pessoa e não como uma função. Dizer: sou sua história, vocês começam comigo, escutem, pode ser útil.

Então o que fazer? Mais uma vez dar razão a ela? Aceitar que ser adulto é parar de se mostrar, é aprender a se esconder até se dissipar?

Aquela sua última frase, o pulo elegante do maldizer ao elogio, parecia-me tão bem-sucedida que pensei que a normalidade adulta era uma rte deste tipo. Eu precisava aprender.

How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function.

On the train, we promised each other to become adults as no one ever had before.

Mi dicevo che la maturità consisteva nell'accettare la piega che aveva preso l'esistenza senza agitarsi troppo, tracciare un solco tra prassi quotidiana e acquisizioni teoriche, imparare a vedersi, a conoscersi in attesa di grandi cambiamenti.

Eu não conseguia mais ser inocente, por trás dos pensamentos havia outros pensamentos, a infância tinha terminado. Eu me esforçava, mas a infância fugia, as lágrimas que eu sentia o tempo todo nos olhos eram o oposto de uma prova de inocência.

I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes. Day by day I grew calmer.

Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing?

We were fourteen, fifteen years old, and already knew the importance of silence in love.

A ella todo le salía, escogía bien las películas que iban a ver, los libros, los amigos, se manejaba con seguridad. Con ella eran buenas las conversaciones y buenas las comidas. Mucho más madura que las de su edad; llevarla a su lado, ahuecando el pecho, su pelo de lino alborotado, era una certeza equiparable a saber que la tierra gira en torno al sol.

Halbwüchsige [...], die sich in der Welt schon abgehärtet haben, aber noch keine Verantwortung tragen, auch für ihre Körper nicht. Sie vertragen es, wenn Unten einmal Oben ist und umgekehrt.

I'm twenty-six," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like." "What age do you feel like?" "Nineteen -- like you." But, to me, nineteen still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year -- maybe as many as seven years -- to learn to feel nineteen.

I'm 26," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like." "What age do you feel like?" "Nineteen, like you." But to me, 19 still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year, maybe as many as seven years, to learn to feel 19.

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

I liked the sweeter ones, but I knew it would sound childish to say so.