Quotes About Maturity

Cuando uno es joven ve el mundo como debería ser y cuando es viejo lo ve como es en realidad

It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and I knew that the best part of my life was already behind me.

Maturare non è altro che il processo attraverso il quale si scopre che tutto ciò a cui credevi da giovane è falso mentre tutto quello a cui ti rifiutavi di credere in gioventù risulta vero.

Dipende dal fatto che lei é ancora molto giovane e un po' sciocco. Quando si é giovani si vede il mondo come dovrebbe essere, e quando si é vecchi lo si vede com'è in realtà. Prima o poi guarirà.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. In fact, I'm going to have one with you, what the hell!

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.…

at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

Dovevamo ancora imparare che il Diavolo ha creato la gioventù per farci commettere i nostri errori e che Dio ha istituito la maturità e la vecchiaia per consentirci di pagarne il prezzo.

You had to assume that his body would grow to match, in which case Stephen would become a man of splendid proportions.

The only good things about his eighteenth year were the things he hadn't done: He hadn't murdered anybody or sold drugs.

Sometimes, when he was older, and especially after he became taller than his mother, he would put his arms around her and silently hold her, and feel her pain right through the fold of his embrace.

As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.

When a child is little, they walk on your toes. When they grow up, they stomp on your heart.

nothing to offer anymore. That you were becoming a respectable citizen. And you wanted to be close to your mama's spirit," she said. "Pretty smart for a kid." Seth grinned. "So what happened when Jesse came home?" she asked. "Jesse never did acknowledge the baby he'd produced. He married his

The impression I have, therefore, of marriage in my sixties is of a time when I took to living only for the moment -- when, above all, I took to expecting nothing that long years of close association had by now, at long last, assured me would never occur. He would not change his personality or his habits of loving, and neither would I. [pp. 213-214].

Let youth pass, and no matter what opportunities presented themselves, the capacity to build the broad base required to support the structure of learning was gone.

caught up in the exciting world of adults and their antics

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.

Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it. Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for? Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s. Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it

Forty-three years old, he is handsome and he knows it, but it's not a view that is held with arrogance. His opinion on his looks are merely understood with the same logic he applies to tasting a fine wine. The grape was merely grown in the right place, under the right conditions. Some degree of nurturing and love mixed with later moments of being completely trampled on and walked all over.

So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you.

Be patient and tough ; someday this pain will be useful to you .