Quotes About Maturity

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

There is a big difference between having your heart broken and being the one responsible for a broken heart. I was twelve years old and had already experienced both.

DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies.

Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.

Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can despise vanity.

you sometimes act as if you think growing up means the rules don't apply anymore. On the contrary—a big part of growing up is learning self-control. You work on that, and then we can talk about expanding your privileges.

Talented or not, I would never assign anyone as young as you two to oversee any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary, except as a last resort.

Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

There is no time for the innocent.

Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?

It moved me away from the narcissism of childhood and into the world's mysteries—the unexplained, the taboo, the other—and drew me closer to a place of understanding and acceptance.

I've adapted; these events have toughened me and I'm prepared to deal with this particular topic.

There were no answers, just as there were no concrete connect-the-dot justifications of daily life's randomness: shit happens, deal with it, stop whining, take your medicine, grow the fuck up.

That is what mature faith requires — not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn — including so much more to learn about humility.

helping human nature and society mature in their moral and spiritual development, evolving in the direction of nonviolence and love before it's too late.

He had what we often lack — the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith. Where there is absolute certainty, there can be no room for faith.

Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown. —SISTER JESSICA, private journal entry

Un hombre que no desea correr riesgos está condenado a no aprender jamás, ni a madurar, ni a vivir.

There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.

I hated being twelve. Back in '65, I just wanted to grow up fast so everything would finally be good, you know? But truth is, life was actually way better back then. Turns out, the older you get... the more everything just turns to shit.

What, like you were never a vicious little asshole when you were that age?