Quotes About Maturity

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.

I've always thought 45 to 55 is a great time for guys: Your body has filled out. Your face doesn't look old, but you're weathered enough to look like you know what you're talking about.

The older you get, the more your body starts to reject certain things.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Someone once asked me what I missed most. I said, 'My youth.' I've never been a boy who could run around, go crazy, do this, try that. There wasn't time for that.

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.