Quotes About Maturity

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

But she was different now, wasn't she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....

Regret expands. It matures. It accrues strength and mass. It is a living organism.

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

As we grow, the question we learn to ask moves from What is right or wrong? to What does Love require?

If a twenty-year-old is frightened of stoves in the same way he was as a two-year-old, we have a problem.

You'll know you've shed your own old beliefs at the right time when you are still able to appreciate them.

Why did people have to get their hearts broken before they learned who and what was good for them and who was bad for them?

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

Le persone si stancano quando sono troppo grandi.

The act of accepting the constraints of society and taking up responsibility was the mark, stated Scout Commander sen'Lora, of a mature and self-directed individual, whatever form that individual might take.

Mama once told Gary to put his anger in a pot and let it simmer.

It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers," she teased.

A person only gets to be more of what they are as they get old.

I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?

I had to meet my mother as a person, separate from my childhood experiences and judgements of her, and know her from an adult perspective.

But life has a way of teaching us that letting feelings run the show leads to all kinds of bad stuff.

Stripped of the glamour and beauty of youth, everything we ever did-it all looks different now. We can see our choices as acts in themselves, not stages on life's way, for if progress in human history is an illusion, so is progress in a human life.

I wished to have the time to put together a world view, but there was never enough time, and also, those who had it, seemed to have had it from a very young age, they didn't begin it at forty.

Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.