Quotes About Maturity

Ich bin drei Jahre älter, und der Ältere ist immer weiser als der Jüngere. Da ich mich nicht für Weise halte, könnt Ihr ungefähr ermessen, wo Ihr steht. Und jetzt Ruhe!

Some people have twenty years of experience, while others have one year of experience twenty times.

I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe enough in years to receive it properly.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

There is one disappointment that has come with turning sixteen. I seem to be starting to grow.

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

And the day when our human race has fully matured, it will not define itself as the sum of the inhabitants of the globe, but as the infinite unity of their reciprocities.

The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life really never grows old.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

We reveal our character all the time through observable behaviors: in the way we treat other people. As we mature, these character-driven behaviors become automatic reflexes, the character habits that express our guiding principles and beliefs.

Kenneth Koch once said, "You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

schooling meant that schools had "become, by design, institutions for the preservation of adolescence

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.

The difference between the ages of ten and fourteen is immense.

And old rat is a brave rat.

For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness

Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

If we think that time passes by us while we somehow remain the same, that's not real learning. Master

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.