Quotes About Maturity

This is an age greedy for instant solutions and rapid results but temple skills are not grown overnight nor produced at a weekend workshop, but slowly and incrementally gained as a tree maturing with time and season.

J'avais treize ans. Je venais de faire peur à un adulte pour la première fois.

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Is that too innocence, when the fountain of milk is flowing in rich abundance, not to endure one to share it, though in extremest need, and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently with all this, not as being no or slight evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable when found in riper years.

Silver hair and wrinkles are earned.

Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important positions, and were obliged to produce the best that was in them with all their energy, I still regarded myself as youthful, a beginner who faced immeasurable time, and I was hesitant about final decisions of any kind.

YaÅŸlanmak, geçmiÅŸten art?k korku duymuyor olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil zaten.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

Growing old, after all, means that one no longer fears the past."..

Wat een mens zijn spieren tekort heeft laten komen, kan later nog worden ingehaald; maar opstijgen naar het geestelijke, de innerlijke kracht van de ziel, kan alleen in die beslissende vormende jaren worden geoefend, en alleen wie vroeg heeft geleerd zijn ziel te vergroten, kan later de hele wereld in zich opnemen.

Ä°nsan zekas?n? hiçbir ÅŸey tutkulu bir ÅŸüpheden fazla keskinleÅŸtirmez, karanl?klara uzanan bir izin peÅŸinden ?srarla gitmek kadar baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey o güne kadar olgunlaÅŸmam?? zekay? geliÅŸtirmez.

When one is old, one has only to look at a person to know him through and through. I know a good man when I see one. My wife taught me that, God rest her soul …

But after all, time is strong, and age has the curious power of devaluing all our feelings.

Nur wer früh seine Seele weit auszuspannen gelernt, vermag später die ganze Welt in sich zu fassen.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

My salad days, when I was green in judgment.

The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.

I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes. And that means acknowledging that others have caused all my problems and blaming them for it.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.