Quotes About Maturity

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

How do you keep from envying? You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive, and, age is not a competitive issue

Children begin by needing their parents. Over time, they reject them. Eventually, they become them.

At seventy-eight, he was giving as an adult and taking as a child.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. IF you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more then the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand your going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

The curtain has just come down on childhood

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-twp. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at 22, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at 22. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

And, age is not a competitive issue.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Embrace aging. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Aging is not just decay. It's growth. As you grow, you learn more.

Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth.

To Nadia, Saeed was if anything more handsome than he had been before, his hard work and gauntness suiting him, giving him a contemplative air, making out of his boyishness a man of substance.

I'm not strange. I've just been put into circumstances nobody my age should be in.

She wiped her cheeks with the backs of her hands. "I'm alright, stop fussing. Stop treating me like a child." "I will if you stop acting like one." He smiled. "Do we have ourselves a deal?" He held out his hand as though they would shake on it but she folded her arms and turned her head.