Quotes About Maturity

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?" Lambiase's mother would like to see her son remarry some day. "I know what you mean, Ma. Doesn't seem like they're going in with their eyes closed," Lambiase says. "He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

Sometimes, though, I get tired of learning lessons.

my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

Det vi tar till oss som tjugoåringar är inte nödvändigtvis samma saker som vi tar till oss som fyrtioåringar och vice versa. Detta gäller både böcker och livet i allmänhet (s. 51).

But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —

Ibland hittar böckerna inte fram till oss förrän tiden är mogen (s. 103).

Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa... but me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely th right time.

the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —

B?dami dvidešimties ? tam tikrus dalykus reaguojame vienaip, o sulauk? keturiasdešimties jau žvelgiame kitaip, ir atvirkš?iai. Tai tinka ir knygoms, ir gyvenime.

She felt, perhaps, old. She was still only twenty-five, but until that point, she had always been the youngest in any room she'd been in, and she had derived power from that.

me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —

Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —A.J.F.

Since she started teaching and become a mother, she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

Someday, we'll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I'll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that's when I'll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, because I'm liable to sink us both.

Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

I was in my early forties, at an age when the view from the hill can be clear and poignant both. The imagined vistas have become realized paths, and I think you may live in the present during those years more than any time since childhood.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think what I'm doing with my life now is a lot more important than what I did when I was a stupid kid.

Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.

Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection - that our lives, too, are unclosed and contingent - do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt that she was a spy in the cold.

There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it isn't too distant or disconnected from who we really are. Later, in the forties and fifties, it becomes imperative to find our way back to the truest things we know and to compose a more authentic self. Now

And somewhere between the late thirties and early forties when we enter midlife, we also have the opportunity for true adulthood, whereupon we proceed either to wither inside our husks or to regather and re-pot ourselves for the flowering into our full authenticity.

Life after adolescence is not one long plateau. Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.