Quotes About Maturity

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I'll just get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

You swear you'll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on kitchen tables, you say "fuck" and "shit" a lot, and then one day, without warning, their words emerge from your mouth like long-dormant sleeper agents suddenly activated.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. "Look

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it's time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis.

each individual has ultimate responsibility to bear; that if one wants to live a full life, one first sets one's own house in order; and only then can one sensibly aim to take on bigger responsibilities.

Osiris stopped paying attention to how his kingdom was being run. That was willful blindness, and there is no blaming that on mere age.

Resulta cada vez más necesario que nos corrijamos a nosotros mismos, no a otros, y que aprendamos explícitamente lo que ello significa.

You don't get to leap from being a 17 year old naughthead who doesn't know anything and who isn't disciplined to the critic of Judeo-Christian society. Especially when you can look at your own life and think about how many things you are doing you know are wrong and you could fix that you aren't fixing.

And, since we don't know right from wrong, or what is good, just about the most inappropriate thing an adult can do is give a young person advice about how to live.

Cleaning Your Room Is Not Enough

Too much protection devastates the developing soul.

growing might be the most important form of winning.

There are only two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up.