Quotes About Maturity

Some people should never have children.

It is only during the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

The mature response to the problem of existence is love.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

When did a person begin to emerge from that fantastical sea of childhood onto the dry land of adult existence?

It's been a long time since Cloudtail ate kittypet food. He was young and stupid then.

You don't have to watch over me like I'm a helpless kit!" Mousefur snapped at him. Longtail's whiskers twitched with amusement. "It's a shame your tongue's not as worn-out as the rest of you," he purred.

We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth!

Leafpaw, you and your sister aren't kits anymore. And you have chosen a very different path from hers, to be a medicine cat. You will always be friends, but you can't do everything together, and the sooner you both accept that, the better.

And I'm not that old!

Rootspring was younger than her, but he sounded a lifetime older.

He wanted to wail to StarClan that it wasn't fair. But he would not behave like a kit, however much he was treated like one. Instead, he began to tidy up the herbs, pushing all the leaves into neat piles and lining up the poultices, ready for any cats who might return injured.

I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

Adolescenti prolaze teško razdoblje. Odrasli se prema njima ponašaju kao prema djeci, ali o?ekuju da se oni ponašaju kao odrasli. Zapovijedaju im kao da su male životinje, a onda o?ekuju da reagiraju kao zrele, uvjek racionalne i samopouzdane osobe. Teško je to vrijeme izgubljenosti i traženja

when owning our own set of gleaming pans, all matching -- as opposed to the assorted chipped-enamel vessels of student days -- seemed mysteriously grown up.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.

Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.