Quotes About Maturity

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.

When you play a long time and you get a little older, you can get a little skeptical and become a little bit of a pessimist, and that experience plays against you.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

I wanted to play Super 15. I wanted to develop some maturity, some leadership and to work on my skill set. Also I want to have played all round the world.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.