Quotes About Maturity

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life.

We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again.

She's not very old but the cigarettes help her to feel like she is.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood.

To be adult means, among other things, to see one's own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

But Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life.

Discipline that isn't self-discipline doesn't mean a thing to a boy.

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A sadder and a wiser manHe rose the morrow morn.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

its adult size by nine months and nearly three-quarters by two years of age, a baby's head must be large and grow rapidly to accommodate the rest of the body's growth. On average, the brain reaches its maximum size in girls at about eleven and a half years of age and fourteen and a half on average for boys—but again it will not be fully mature in terms of its internal development and executive functioning until about twenty-five

Young children bump heads and sprain limbs and weep over lost toys, but the heartbreak of a grown child draws blood.

But age isn't just time passing. It's time breaking you—your will, your heart, your beliefs.

You're way too young to be so miserable

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange — my youth.