Quotes About Maturity

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

The years teach much which the days never know.

Then I said, "I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

The years teach much which the days never knew!

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Features well cured make us strong.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.

EmoÈ›iile sunt exprimate brusc prin noi impulsuri ale dorinÈ›ei. O energie inepuizabil? ne atrage spre experienÈ›e nelimitate, în timp ce uit?m c? È™i experimentarea are consecinÈ›ele ei. Credem c? putem separa ideile de consecinÈ›ele lor. Dar adev?rul e c? È™i emoÈ›iile pot mistui. În explorarea aceasta de noi posibilit??i exist? o imaturitate a înÈ›elepciunii.

Tragedia maturiz?rii nu const? în faptul c? ne pierdem copil?ria în simplitatea ei, ci în aceea c? ne pierdem inocenÈ›a în sublimul ei.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.

When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

We gotta stand still! Stay the age we are. Grow up? Hah! All you do then is marry someone who screams at you!

It smells boys ulcerating to be men, paining like great unwise wisdom teeth, twenty thousand miles away, summer abed in winter's night. It feels the aggravation of middle-aged men like myself, who gibber after long-lost August afternoons to no avail.

Nothing extraordinary about me except I'm fifty-four, which is always extraordinary to the man inside it.

The winds that had been young and wild grew old and serene