Quotes About Maturity

What might serve as a more sophisticated alternative to happiness? Imagine it is living in accordance with the sense of responsibility, because that sets things right in the future.

It is for such reasons that trust is vital: but trust of the mature and tragic sort. A naive person trusts because he or she believes that people are essentially or even universally trustworthy. But any person who has truly lived has been—or has—betrayed.

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. If you're resentful, look for the reasons.

Because these really are rules. And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

He had already concluded that adults were contemptible, and that he could safely defy them. (Too bad, then, that he was destined to become one.)

El tiempo siempre suele dar una perspectiva distinta de las cosas...

Mas o que é uma donzela, tola e ignorante em seu desejo, se comparada a uma viúva, cujo anseio é feito de conhecimento e de ausência, de contenção e de penúria, de fome e de jejum, é lúcido e insolente?

Quanto mais puta em jovem mais séria na velhice. Ficou donzela e bucho…

Pedro Bala também só tinha quinze anos, mas há muito tempo conhecia não só o areal e os seus segredos, como os segredos do amor das mulheres. Porque se os homens conhecem esses segredos muito antes que as mulheres, os Capitães da Areia os conheciam muito antes que qualquer homem.

Ela sabia que naquele momento não havia criança mais ali. Todos eram grandes, grandes e tristes, ceando a mesma tristeza aos pedaços.

Agora você sozinho. Nada de medo que você está ficando um homenzinho. Meu

Los actos que al principio provocaban pudor, acaban por parecen naturales; el ojo percibe los tonos violentos como simples matices, el oído escucha las mentiras con igual respeto que las verdades, el corazón aprende a no agitarse por torpes acciones.

Admiremos a los viejos por las superioridades que hayan poseído en la juventud. No incurramos en la simpleza de esperar una vejez santa, heroica o genial tras una juventud equívoca, mansa y opaca; la vejez no pone flores donde sólo había malezas, antes bien, siega las excelencias con su hoz niveladora.

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

Childhood awakens in meaningless routine; youth lives its best years without an ideal; and maturity, sterile maturity, serves no other purpose than to corrupt youth by its example. I am glad I'm dying. Claudite jam rivos, pueri. Ring down the curtain, boys.

Sons must aspire to be greater than their fathers, but at our apron-strings we only teach them to be children.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

The author of 2 Enoch follows a tradition in which an aged mother, who had been barren up to her deathbed, miraculously conceived Melchizedek without human intervention. Before she was able to give birth to the baby she died. The baby then emerged from her dead body with the maturity of a three-year-old boy.

Only the young have such moments .I don´t mean the very young, No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments.

Is this what makes people old, then? Not age, or decrepitude, but grief?

Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous.

Perfection is the child of time.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.