Quotes About Maturity

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.