Quotes About Maturity

A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.

at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she'd rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.

easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.

The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.

It's an essential part of maturing, putting fear aside, because if there's anything that cripples us it is fear.

When you look back on your life there are always times that you remember as the hard times, even if they're the hard times a girl has, not the hard times of a woman, with grief and loss and real hardship.

The difference between fifty and sixty is nothing; the difference between eight and eighteen is more or less a lifetime.

It's one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you'll just get through one day, and then the next, that a week from Saturday will take care of itself. I couldn't do that when I was younger. I don't know how much of this knowledge grows out of being female and having lived through layers of serial, often contradictory, lives.

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.

My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.

I am above eighteen, and quite able to take care of myself, and others too. You do not know half the wisdom and prudence I possess, because I have never been tried.

A dinner made up wholly of young people is generally stupid.

Because that is what your babies do, when they grow. They turn around and say it is all your fault.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.

C?ci în mod fundamental tinereÈ›ea este mai solitar? decât b?trâneÈ›ea.

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.