Quotes About Maturity

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.

Somehow a group of middle-aged men had transformed themselves into the immature kids they'd been back in their college days.

At my age, a man husbands his resources. He says nothing that he does not really mean.

Youth is a very good thing to possess, no doubt; but it is a tiresome setting for maturity.

Can you ever solve disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

Oh C'mon. Can you ever solve poverty? Can you ever solve crime? Can you ever solve disease, unemployment, war or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

Ich glaube, ich werde älter; so jung schon fängt das an.

She was seriously disappointed, a child I was treating like a woman, or a woman I was treating like a child, I didn't know myself which it was.

If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest incidents take on significance.

If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance.

Strong Christians see God in both the good and the bad. The mature believer sees God not only in pleasures and palaces, but also in the barnyards and stables of life.

There are certain things no one can do for you.

Can you be more saved than you were the first day of your salvation? No. But can a person grow in salvation? Absolutely. It, like marriage, is a done deal and a daily development.

We age not by years but by events and our emotional reactions to them.

Don't deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

How does one grow up?" I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, "By thinking.

It is hope-giving to consider the young, and it is also hope-giving to consider growth as a constant. Here I am at fifty-eight and in this past year I have only begun to understand what loving is … forced to my knees again and again like a gardener planting bulbs or weeding, so that I may once more bring a relationship to flower, keep it truly alive.