Quotes About Maturity

Whether it's true or not, who cares? The truth is for teenagers and hippies. We're too old and ugly for that crap. Wake me up, make me think, or buy me a drink. Otherwise, fuck off." Michael Rutger, The Anomaly

Age is a state of mind.

The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions—and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

Adults are just children who earn money.

I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

The mature believer is God-conscious, and ever-conscious of what God's Word says about him and to him.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, assumes personal responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and keeps out of it. Without this hidden conspiracy of good will, society would not endure an hour.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we'd still have something like this. That it turns out we're not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and spirit.

When you stop growing you start dying.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.

Many, if not most, good ideas die young -- mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. Once well started, an opinion had better be left to shift for itself.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.