Quotes About Maturity

At forty, a man wears the face he's earned.

In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.

Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

From age sixteen to age twenty, a woman's body is a temple. From twenty-one to forty-five, it's an amusement park. From forty-five on, it's a terrarium.

When indeed will we be mature enough to accept, for ourselves and our children, that there is no obligation to love, there is no guilt in not loving, and that the only valid basis for relationships...--between any human beings--is love freely given from both sides.

I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

You will find, as you mature, that most people are weak. And lazy. Weak, lazy people whine and complain. Otherwise, they would have to take a risk to make things right. And the wrong they suffer often don't need righting because they exist only inside their minds.

Here he uses the image of a sun (the masters) shining down from the Vast space of love and wisdom (their activities of body, speech and mind), to mature the minds of trainees (lotus flowers).

Niño que estás creciendo: si llegas a ser buena gente seguirás creciendo de muerto.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

You know how eighth graders are anti-everything? Well, sixth graders are the opposite of that. They're super gung ho, since being in middle school is still a big deal for them. Give them a year—they'll wise up.

anger is the emotion of a lesser person.

He felt old at eleven. Amy

Amy sighed anxiously. Her brother was immature and annoying. But perhaps his most unpleasant feature was the fact that he was usually right.

Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.