Quotes About Maturity

Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.

Innocence, like virginity, is more fun to lose than to keep.' 'Both are quite expensive, sir.

Oamenii iau de-a gata ceea ce de fapt este o art?. Arta de a tr?i bine, de a tr?i confortabil dup? standardele personale, cere o anumit? maturitate a spiritului, un caracter excep?ional, un gust cu adev?rat rafinat ?i…

Innocence is attractive in children but it makes brittle, disappointed adults.

Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

But there is knowing something and then there is feeling it. For adults, these are two different things. For children, they are one.

Val was young enough that alcohol was still recreation, not yet anesthesia,

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

Learning how to learn is a lifelong process.

If you ever start thinking that any of them are developmentally more mature than a high school boy, just remember they named their dogs after beer.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Finch knew that no matter how old it might say she was on her I.D., what those men had done to her had shoved her headlong into adulthood.

Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn't matter at all.

The modest wrinkles and the slackness of her skin were a matter of course. Proof she'd seized the reins in life. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

I am now 28 years old on the outside and nearly 12 years old on the inside. I always want to stay 12 years old on the inside.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

The world tells us what we need to know when we are ready to know it and not before. That's the way of things.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

read books through the lens of life preparation.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Some men never reach a marriageable age.

He had long lines creasing his face, furrows on his forehead you could plant potatoes in.