Quotes About Maturity

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

I came to success very late in life.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Hopefully people will grow with me, because I'm definitely not going to be stuck in one place all my life.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

life is just high school all over again, only with bigger bills to pay.