Quotes About Maturity

That's the dilemma with family. When it comes to our parents, we're always children. At what point do we grow up? They raise us to function as individuals, but when do they allow us to act independently?

A big part of growing up is learning to be cautious. It's realizing that there are consequences to everything you do.

big part of growing up is learning to be cautious. It's realizing that there are consequences to everything you do.

independence sprang from those years when I

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.

Rhoda was not in the least envious of her sister's fuller life, for now that they were both in their fifties there seemed to be very little difference between them.

How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.

He must be about fifty-seven or fifty-eight,' said Harriet, who seemed to have been doing a little calculation. 'It will be nice to see dear Theo again.' 'On the threshold of sixty,' mused Dr. Parnell. 'That's a good age for a man to marry. He needs a woman to help him into his grave.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. —PIERS PAUL READ

I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age.

Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.

Each day he grew older and learned something new." Strong

it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

Hygiene is for people like me; I've reached an age where I can no longer afford to smell like myself.

Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.

Got my shit together" Definition: I've learned how to play it cool. I've got some ideas worked out.

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.

Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

Once you reach a certain age, you realize that men aren't as important as you once thought they were.