Quotes About Maturity

Learning to suffer is called growing up. If we postponed all our sorrows, could we be capable of doing the work we're called to do?

I'm not some blushing schoolgirl, stop that nonsense.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

We are happy when we are growing.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

On Three Ways of Writing for Children": When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

from Lewis's brilliant essay "On Three Ways of Writing for Children": When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

William Butler Yeats. "Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

a quotation from Lewis's brilliant essay "On Three Ways of Writing for Children": When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Bur surely Rebels eventually realize that we can't just do whatever we want - adults can'ts act that way. Adults can act that way, and Rebels do act that way. For better or worse.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Those who were beginning to grow old had an air of youth, while there was something mature in the faces of the young.

As a child I loved what can be seen, as a teenager what can be felt, as a man I no longer love anything.

Calvitie. Toujours précoce, est causée par des excès de jeunesse ou la conception de grandes pensées.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

But a vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies that develop between brothers or sisters almost unnoticed until maturity, only to burst out when one of them marries or has a stroke of good fortune, kept them constantly on the alert in a fraternal, unaggressive hostility. They did love each other, yet they kept an eye on each other.

Jamais plus nous ne boirons si jeunes.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 — but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.