Quotes About Maturity

Sometimes I feel grown up and other times I feel like a little kid. I seem to be more than one person.

I love the way people always think they know somebody your age until you tell them how old you really are! "I'm going on twelve," I said. "Gretchen is almost twelve too," the doctor said. Well! He was right about my age.

But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it...sex is a commitment...once you're there you can't go back to holding hands.

Steph!" Rachel cried, lowering the window shades. "I wish you'd remember you're going into junior high. You can't run around like a baby anymore. Where's your bra?

They were married by a justice of the peace when Ed got out of the service. The young lawyer, who wasn't that young anymore, threw a party for them in his backyard. Tawny didn't invite Darlene. Didn't even tell Ed her mother was living.

Miri liked to think of her as Corinne. She liked thinking of all the adults in her life by their first names. It made them seem more interesting, less like parents and more like regular people with stories of their own

no man is born incapable of growth.

The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

Man was formed for growth, and all things external were designed to promote his growth.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Hasta que tuve veinte años, nunca me preocupó lo que la gente pudiera pensar de mí. A partir de los veinte me preocupaba constantemente lo que pudieran pensar mis vecinos. Pero un día, después de cumplir los cincuenta, de pronto comprendí que ellos difícilmente habían pensado en mí

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará como "inmaduros" o "inestables", como si "no cambiar de rumbo" fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

La potencia intelectual de un hombre se mide por la dosis de humor que es capaz de utilizar. NIETZSCHE

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará de inmaduros o "inestables", como si no cambiar de rumbo fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

You ask what the finest life span would be? To live until you reach wisdom.

People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

Sometimes I wonder whether I have felt everything I'm ever going to feel

The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.

In my view, life is divided into three parts. Youth is longing. Maturity is being. Old age is remembering.