Quotes About Maturity

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.

W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

The price of maturity is exorbitant these days. Paying for wisdom with money is one thing, but when time becomes the currency, it's your life at stake.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way.

What distinguishes the Jungian approach to developmental psychology from virtually all others is the idea that even in old age we are growing towards realization of our full potential.

What distinguishes the Jungian approach to developmental psychology from virtually all others is the idea that even in old age we are growing towards realization of our full potential. This

Psychoanalysis is based on Freud's theories of infantile development: it includes the idea that no one, however mature, entirely outgrows his or her infantile past.

The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

With few exceptions, psychotherapists have omitted to consider the fact that the capacity to be alone is also an aspect of emotional maturity.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.

And she is older, in my defense, the way Alison goes on you'd think I'd been fucking an undergraduate. In any case, once Astrid and I had established relations, I understood that they might cross paths, so we were exceptionally discreet about our . . . connection.

Plus he'd put on weight, become more solid in the way so many of us did after college, continuing to grow into manhood long after we thought we'd arrived.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

A heart is made mature by darkness and art.

Maybe I was naïve and undeveloped, even delayed, but if growing up meant the death of dreams, I chose immaturity

A person who is truly a legend remains a kid for the lifetime, so naturally he does not like spending time with the people who enjoy calling themselves the adults.

A wise loves to remain a child all through his life while a wicked likes to be regarded always as an adult , and so both persons' character reflects out in their own attitude and behaviour towards the people.

Babies are always adorable but most adults are horrible.

Babies are beautiful and adults are usually horrible.

Bitter the man's experience with the woman mainly his girlfriend or wife, Better the lesson he learns of his life.

Everyone is born as sage , only with growing age almost all start becoming fools on the world stage.