Quotes About Maturity

Carl Jung said that most painful issues can't be solved—they can only be outgrown, but that takes time and deep work.

La propia ignorancia sigue creciendo precisamente al mismo ritmo que la propia experiencia.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of coming of age -to learn how to stand alone.

Woman must come of age by herself. She must find her true center alone.

He was a man of absolutes, he had been for as long as she had known him, and time had deepened his character rather than mellowed it. He was wiser, more mature in judgment and temper than in his youth, but in the last analysis his heart would always rule his head. He was the stuff of crusaders, and of martyrs.

see nothing attractive in behaving like a fool when you don't have to.

one thing about responsibility Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot ever take anyone else's, no matter how you love them, and no one can give you theirs. We each stand alone.

It's years since I've been shocked

Love that expects perfection—no past with mistakes, pain, learning—is only hunger. No one grows to maturity without acts to be ashamed of; in accepting that, we love not only the strengths but also the weaknesses, and real bonds grow between us.

Only the quick-fingered, the strong and the lucky reached adulthood. Monk could not afford to indulge in judgment

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your enemies always said you might.

You reflect your age differently. You reflect its broken heart.

Y tienes que saber que no cambiamos con el paso del tiempo; somos como flores que se abren; simplemente nos convertimos más y más en nosotros mismos.

none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

You are like an adult who, looking back on his childhood, realizes that he never appreciated it. You cannot, as a man, go back to the nursery and play with your toys, asking for the love and care

Old age had taught me to respect danger.

Dicen que ninguno de nosotros cambia realmente con el paso del tiempo, que sólo nos volvemos más como somos.

I've been too young for too long.

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Sunday 11:05 AM Hi Kate I text you! Hi. U r home now? Spell things out, for heaven's sake. You're not some teenager. You are home now? No.

This was when I was still very young, of course. Back then I thought I understood nearly everything.