Quotes About Maturity

Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.

We all have an idealised picture of the garden that we have carried around in our heads from the moment it became ours and which, I guess, is never the same as the growing reality. Over the years that the garden is coming into being that image carries you forward and inspires you, but when things reach maturity, the cold light of reality can be harsh.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be 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 the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.

But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other.

I have frequently told you, and the holidays just past have convinced me, that my prime has truly begun. One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.

We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up—fast.

I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me.

My heart broke, but I was not a young girl anymore, afraid of being trapped behind a door forever. I knew the door was safety, I knew the door would not always be closed, and I did not let her out.

if people grew milder or kinder with age, he certainly hadn't.

I felt as though I were pretending to be grown-up.

And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less

Recordaba lo que no debía, y había olvidado demasiado. Recordaba cómo matar y cómo odiar, y se le había olvidado cómo crecer.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, Please leave your foolishness at home. But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

The majority of people who acquire wisdom do so after they have passed the age of forty. Prior to that time the majority of people are too busy gathering knowledge and organizing it into plans to spend any effort seeking wisdom.

A man is no bigger than the things which he allows to annoy him.