Quotes About Maturity

I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Todo se le vuelve decir que la infancia es un tesoro, pero la vida es un desatino, y los niños no la disfrutan en su afán de hacerse hombres.

The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.

La necesidad de atención se vuelve muy fuerte y continúa en la edad adulta.

Small minds don't grow, no matter how long you water them.

Leidenschaften sind nichts anderes als Ideen in ihrem ersten Entwicklungsstadium: sie gehören zur Jugend des Herzens, und ein Dummkopf ist derjenige, der meint, von ihnen ein Leben lang erregt zu werden: viele ruhige Flüsse beginnen als rauschende Wasserfälle, doch keiner springt und schäumt bis zum Meer.

Nay, what is human love?—a stirring Of youthful blood to quicker flow, But love grows chiller, as recurring Days, years and decades, come and go.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Mientras que las personas son jóvenes y la composición musical de su vida está aún en los primeros compases, pueden escribirla juntas e intercambiarse motivos, pero cuando se encuentran y ya son mayores, sus composiciones musicales están más o menos cerradas y cada palabra, cada objeto significa una cosa distinta en la composición de la una y en la de la otra

she thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself

The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown. They therefore adopt forms, patterns, models— those that are in fashion, that suit, that please—and enact them.

All he knew about old age was that it a time when a person had passed his maturity; when fate had ended; when there was no longer any need to fear that terrible mystery called the future; when every love than came along was certain and final.

Her beauty, which struck him at the time, did not make her look younger than her age; he might sooner have said that her age made her beauty more eloquent.

Las personas deberían recibir su veneno el día de su mayoría de edad. Debería entregárseles en una ceremonia solemne. No para inducirlas al suicidio. Al contrario, para que vivan con más tranquilidad y más seguridad. Para que vivan con la conciencia de que son dueñas de su vida y de su muerte.

Esa preocupación por la propia imagen, ahí es donde reside la fatal inmadurez del hombre

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future.

And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay.

Genij lirike je genij neiskustva. Pjesnik ne zna mnogo o svijetu, ali rije?i koje teku iz njega svrstavaju se u prekrasne skupine, kona?ne kao kristal. Pjesnik je nezreo ?ovjek, ali njegov stih nosi u sebi mo? proro?anstva pred kojim i sam ostaje zapanjen.

por qué tengo que ser madura para todo, como maduro ser juzgado, expulsado, acusado de trotskista, como persona madura ser enviado a la mina, pero por qué en el amor no puedo ser una persona madura y debo tragar toda la inmadurez?

Tandis qu'il se mouvait sur elle, en avant puis en arrière, il lui semblait décrire sans cesse le même mouvement, de l'enfance à l'âge adulte puis en sens inverse, et encore une fois du petit garçon qui regardait misérablement un gigantesque corps de femme à l'homme qui étreint ce corps et le dompte. Ce mouvement, qui mesure habituellement quinze centimètres à peine, était long comme trois décennies.

the young can't help but acting; they're immature, but they're placed in a mature world and have to act as if they were mature. So they put on whatever masks and disguises appeal to them and can be made to fit -- and thy act.

La preoccupazione per la propria immagine, è questa la fatale immaturità dell'uomo. È così difficile essere indifferenti alla propria immagine. Una tale indifferenza è al di sopra delle forze umane. L'uomo ci arriva solo dopo la morte. E neanche subito. Solo molto tempo dopo la morte.

Nehmen wir an, daß es im Weltall einen Planeten gibt, auf dem alle Menschen nocheinmal geboren werden. Sie werden sich an ihr Leben auf der Erde erinnern und sich aller Erfahrungen, die sie dort gesammelt haben, bewußt sein. (...) Und vielleicht gibt es noch weit mehr Planeten, auf denen die Menschheit neu geboren wird, immer um einen Grad (um ein Leben) reifer.