Quotes About Maturity

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.

An individual's frame is influenced by their willpower, perseverance, endurance, skill set, emotional maturity, and self assurance. The fact that frame is self-reinforcing is among its most significant features."

You can not become successful, until you develop into the person who can."

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

Like fine wine, I do not travel well. Sure, when I was young, fresh, low in acidity and not so tannic, I was a more adventurous spririt.

A lot of kids are shocked at the idea of people over thirty having sex." (Max)

Rob looked to be in his mid-thirties. About his own age. A man at the peak of his abilities.

A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child's playful obliviousness.

A whole and grown-­up person would go and simply tell him. I'm in love with you. A whole and grown-­up person would ask him. Can you please love me back?

I hoped she wouldn't realize how spectacular she was until she was twenty-five and safely past letting it ruin her.

she hadn't known that no one grew up without collecting dings and broken edges.

He who learns as a child, what is that like? It's like ink written on new paper. And he who learns as an old person, what is that like? It's like ink written on erased paper.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Spiritual development in Paganism can be measured by the maturity of your actions and the degree to which you participate in the interconnectedness of the universe. We

Age is not ugly, just poignant.

Quizás en eso consiste crecer: en darte cuenta de lo gilipollas que eras.

es mucho lo que se aprende en medio siglo.

Maturitatea aduce cu sine iluzia pernicioas? a controlului, ?i s-ar putea chiar s? depind? de ea.

Credo che la maturità non porti nessuna esperienza» disse. «O dovrei dire che l'esperienza non porta nessuna maturità?»