Quotes About Maturity

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It's actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

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