Quotes About Maturity

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

The tendency to late marriages may reflect nothing more than the growth of sense," Lewis Durant said, "At 21, a man seldom knows what he is doing, or where his best interests lie." "I am glad you say a man, Mr. Durant, and exempt woman from this youthful imbecility," Lidia said. "I do: a woman's imbecility is not dependent on youth: it flourishes at all ages.

I believe, for instance, that love is an infection best contracted and got over when one is young, like the smallpox; and then one may rest secure from it and get on with life

A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle." Dr, Berger

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Each trial we experience, each of life's scars, can only mature us if we allow them to do so

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

The lion's cub grows into a lion.

Infantile love follows the principle 'I love because I am loved.' "Mature love follows the principle 'I am loved because I love.' "Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' "Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Responsável significa, naturalmente, amarrar o próprio sapato. Mas significa também não ter permissão para culpar uma infância terrível — ou uma paixão, uma tentação, uma ignorância ou uma inocência — por atos que são nossos, por ações que realmente praticamos. Pois se, na realidade, as praticamos, somos responsáveis.

Chega um tempo em que não nos é permitido não saber.

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

Dem 'ersten Mal' all jener Dinge, die ihm mit ziemlicher Gewissheit im Leben noch bevorstanden, blickte er ohne Aufregung entgegen. Als er zehn Jahre alt wurde, hatte er im Fernsehen, in Magazinen und im Internet die wesentlichen Zutaten des menschlichen Lebens bereits gesehen und auf ihre Beschaffenheit geprüft.

Jenseits von jugendlichen Leidenschaften begegnete man der Welt am besten mit gut gekühltem Pragmatismus.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

With two such perfect parents, someone's got to set an example to her of how not to behave. - Cat

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments…

Shamas sentía un nudo en la garganta y hacía esfuerzos para no llorar. Pensaba que si lo hacía se reirían de él, puesto que ya estaba cerca de ser un hombre.