Quotes About Maturity

I'm not getting old," Harry said, "I'm already old.

Age does not guarantee wisdom. And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

Grown men who insist on wearing water shoes to the grocery store deserve all the ridicule which is heaped upon them

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

It takes a lifetime to organise your life

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three thousand years in the past. This is because many of us live according to ideas that were original and groundbreaking... in 500 B.C. Most people are unwilling or unable to ask the hard questions- as in, why do we do things the way we do, and what will the end results be?" (p.120) Generation Hex

You can't instantly reap what you sow today, it does not work like instant grits, no matter what you sow in life it takes time to grow and be ready for harvest

Age is not a factor only one's maturity level

A woman looking for her King and not a Prince shows of her high intelligence and her value on her limited time not to waste it

We tend to become wiser after the fact from any situation

This isn't a slumber party.

Something or other was being made good. I touched the knife hilt at my side, and remembered that all men were once boys, and that boys are always looking for ways to become men. Some of the ways are easy, too; all you have to do is be satisfied that it has happened.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

To the question, "Why am I old?" the usual answer is, "Because I am becoming dead." But the facts show that I reveal more character as I age, not more death.

fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives.

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

If you're not growing anywhere, you're not going anywhere.

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

As the blood flowed back to his brain, he turned back into the rather formal young man I had worked so hard to corrupt.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!