Quotes About Maturity

Una niña de once años es muchas cosas, pero no tonta.

Los jóvenes siguen siendo niños y los niños a veces tienen derecho a ser cabezotas.

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn

Los niños... A veces son mucho más astutos que los atontados y pesados adultos.)

There's my ma, fifty-years old, hightailing around town with some guy while I sit here, in the prime of my youth, completely and utterly alone. I shake my head. At myself.

Some people ripen, some rot.

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.

it is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

Something he had read came into his head, that André Malraux had once asked an elderly priest what he had learned of the human race after a lifetime of hearing confessions, and the priest had replied, "That there are no grown-ups.

André Malraux had once asked an elderly priest what he had learned of the human race after a lifetime of hearing confessions, and the priest had replied, "That there are no grown-ups.

Our children are grown, we've enjoyed some success in our lives, and we're looking for something else now to fulfill ourselves....It's like being adolescents all over again, only this time we don't care if everyone likes the way we look or the clothes we wear. Or even if people like us at all. That nasty competition is over. I see this as a time to be who we've always seen ourselves as being, deep in our hearts.

I'm sure that's true. Nonetheless, Nate has to learn to face the consequences of his actions. You will not be able to protect him from all of life's difficult moments, you know. No parent can. All we can do is to let him go through them and learn from them. To give him the tools he needs.

She was nearly seventy years old. There was no time left for regret or misgivings, no time for dreams of what might have been.

We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.

We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again.

I'm like an old golf-ball—I've had all the white paint knocked off me long ago. Life can whack me about now, and it can't leave a mark. But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence.

have wrought my simple plan      If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man,      Or the man who's half a boy.

The furrows upon his brow had been cut a little deeper by Time's chisel.

Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of a shop, I felt I was someone to be taken seriously; not a girl anymore, but a young woman.

Las esperanzas son como los adornos del pelo. De joven se pueden llevar demasiados. Pero cuando envejeces, tan sólo uno ya te hace parecer tonta.

there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.

Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people's level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.

Ä°nsanlar?n elde edip tutmay? baÅŸarabilecekleri bireysel özgürlüÄŸün miktar? onlar?n politik olgunluÄŸuna baÄŸl?d?r. Gün ortas?nda karanl?k s.164