Quotes About Maturity

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

The thing about loss-of-innocence stories, the reason they hit so hard, is that they're so final. You can never go back.

he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

Estava no período mais brilhante do crescimento masculino, com seus intelectos e emoções claramente separadas. O tempo no qual a influência da juventude indiscriminadamente se misturava à impulsividade havia passado, e ainda não havia chegado à fase em que elas se uniam novamente, pela ingerência de uma esposa ou da família. Resumindo, estava com vinte e oito anos e solteiro.

Tess Durbeyfield, in quell'epoca della sua vita, era solo un recipiente di emozioni non ancora colorite dall'esperienza

In short, he was twenty-eight, and a bachelor.

It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell. We can dodge some right there.

Experience decorates us.

I find friendship to be like wine. Raw when new. Ripened with age.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

De même qu'un aliment non digéré ne fortifie pas un homme, de même le temps que l'on a passé à attendre ne le vieillit pas.

Yet nothing would seem to dull a deft an noble intellect more swiftly, more surely than the sharp and bitter stimulant of erudition, and clearly the adolescent's melancholic and ever so conscientious thoroughness is shallow when compared with the profound resolve of the mature master to deny knowledge, disavow it, put it behind him, head high, lest it should in the slightest maim, discourage, or debase the will, action, feeling, and even passion.

grownups acting like the worst kind of kids, kids acting like they knew what was going on.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

she absorbed in an instant the truth that genuine adulthood comes when one does not run off because of shame, when one stays and demands a home.

When Ray had asked her why she was so sad, she'd replied, "Because how can I feel so old without having grown up.

I encourage you, therefore, to hold your imperfections tenderly. Value the learning of life lessons as an important part of becoming a wise and mature human being.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

I'm not an infant, Georgie." "I can see that." His bedclothes left little to the imagination.

such a commotion. Having reached the age of twenty and two

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one's own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined taste, and—' 'And money.