Quotes About Maturity

She felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late.

guess many of us have regrets, he wrote, but my regrets seem to grow as I get older.

What we do matters is a thought Isabelle had again and again, as though just now, well into adult years, she was figuring this out.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Por aquí han pasado novedades editoriales cuya lectura emprendía con ilusión y curiosidad; pero, a medida que me hago mayor, me inclino más por los viejos conocidos, hermanos de la costa que nunca son del todo viejos porque tienen la cualidad de amoldarse, renovados, frescos y sabios, a la mirada cada vez más fatigada de este su lector. (Prologando «El enigma de las arenas» de Childers...)

Respecto al vino, decía el capitán que ya tendría tiempo en la vida de beber hasta reventar, si lo quisiera, y que para eso nunca se le hacía demasiado tarde a un hombre;

You're a strange young lady. How old are you? Eighteen? Nineteen? Sometimes your expression changes, as if you were older." "Maybe I am. One's expressions are influenced by what one has experienced and read. Look at you." "What's the matter with me?" "Have you ever seen yourself smile? You look like an old soldier.

Usted y yo estamos dentro del prodigioso ámbito de la madurez, en el que la locura y la cordura ya no son pasiones, sino condimentos que la experiencia enseña a combinar deliciosamente.

Experience brings best

Therefore flee the company of childish people. Greet them, when you meet, with smiles That keep on terms of common courtesy, Without inviting intimate relations.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers.

She used to be a schoolteacher, but she has no class now.

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Él se había alejado de su casa a los once años para «descubrir el mundo»; pero ésa y sucesivas experiencias lo pusieron en camino de descubrir que en el mundo no hay nada peor que la maldad humana.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

If you feel the need to be stupid, do so elsewhere.

Ideas of Self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no Death or cunning has overcome them but is there reinforcement of energy. The dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. By allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "Does not matter- please yourself.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.