Quotes About Maturity

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, 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.

There's nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.