Quotes About Maturity

I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered. "Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Yes. A few weeks with people closer to his own age will do him good. After all, folk do say I can be a little grim from time to time." "You, Halt? Grim? Who could say such a thing?" Gilan said. Halt glanced at him suspiciously. Gilan was, all too obviously, just managing to keep a straight face. "You know, Gilan," He said, "sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.

I'll be fine. I'm a big boy now, you know.

Kids don't quite get what the consequences are until the consequences are due.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

At twenty-three, Johnny didn't smile without reason or waste time on people he found insincere.

But death and blood was part of what it took to go from boy to man, no matter what my mother had to say about it.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life.