Quotes About Maturity

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all).

Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones—old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense.

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones—

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

They were both so much older now. Their bodies had crumpled and softened and worn

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

Woman" is the grownup version of "Girl.

God has made me willing to do any thing that I can do, consistent with truth, for the sake of peace, and that I might not be a stumbling-block to others. For this reason I can cheerfully forego, and give up, what I verily believe, after the most mature and impartial search, is my right, in some instances.

Great men Ã¢â'¬Â¦ have not been boasters and buffoons," wrote Emerson, "but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

No matter how often you do it with three-year-olds, they're just not ready to get the concept of fairness

From Heartbreak Hotel: (Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple" "Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow

They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.

Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.

Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.

I'm not entirely sure who you are. I mean, you're not really a kid anymore and you're not an adult. ... So, you're going through all these changes, and I don't know who you'll be at the end of it.

The purpose of Christian doctrine is not merely to make us more knowledgeable but to make us more mature as followers of Jesus Christ, to make us more like him.

They need society's permission to experiment and grow and err: permission which teens and twentysomethings take for granted, but which adults in maturity often need just as much.

Maturing into a viable adulthood is partly about discipline, but it is also about luck. Aldous Huxley famously wrote that experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. That is profoundly correct. Our life experience is not one event after the other but a series of opportunities to grow by making sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Some do that better than others.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).