Quotes About Maturity

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

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.

When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up

If life has not changed or taught you anything, you haven't been living it right!

To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly

I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.

Growth is the process of gradual increase towards living a fulfilled life

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.