Quotes About Maturity

She could reach up to the table and take a cookie or a spoon. She could stand at the window and look outside. She could do a lot of things now which she could not do when she was a little baby.

No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error, such as philosophy, religion, or any other branch of knowledge where it is necessary to take large views; because wrong notions imbibed early can seldom be rooted out, and of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to arrive at maturity.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and more slowly does it mature.

Je edler und vollkommener eine Sache ist, desto später und langsamer gelangt sie zur Reife.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity.

Quanto mais nobre e perfeita é uma coisa, tanto mais tarde e mais lentamente ela atinge a maturidade.

M?i chân lý ??u Ä'i qua 3 bÆ°á»›c: ??u tiên, nó b? nh?o báng, Sau Ä'ó, nó b? ph?n ??i k?ch li?t, Cu?i cùng, ng??i ta ch?p nh?n nó nhÆ° má»™t sá»± th?t hi?n nhiên.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

L'enfance n'avait laissé sur eux aucune trace. Dépourvus de curiosité comme de doutes, ils étaient à leur manière terriblement adultes. (p.344)

Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.

most, even at my young age of nine and twenty, and the

Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

people reported more positive emotions as they aged.

They experienced trials, to be sure, and more moments of poignancy--that is, of positive and negative emotion mixed together. But overall, they found living to be a more emotionally satisfying and stable experience as time passed, even as old age narrowed the lives they led...The common view was that these lessons are hard to learn. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.

The Anti-christ of mental health and emotional maturity.

Then you get pubic hair and everything changes. Pubic hair signals the beginning of your demise. After pubic hair comes high school, college, work. By the time you've started working, you're ruined. And you will never make a friend as completely and easily as you did when you still wiped your nose on your sleeve.

My youth is gone, but something far better has taken its place.

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

A sedici anni siete giovani e ridicoli, dopo sarete solo ridicoli

Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don't always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final.