Quotes About Maturity

Adulthood is made up of a prudent anticipation and a philosophical memory that make you navigate more slowly and steadily.

Si el dolor y la belleza están conectados, quizá con la madurez llega no lo que Nabhan llama abstracción, sino un sentido estético que compensa parcialmente las pérdidas que sufrimos con el tiempo y que encuentra belleza en lo distante.

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Il serait peut-être bon, il serait peut-être temps de se demander si la perfection n'est pas dans l'enfance, si l'adulte n'est pas qu'un enfant qui a commencé à pourrir.

Un hombre que le cuenta a otro sus aventuras amorosas es un tarado, y si encima es el padre de uno, esa estupidez infantil se convierte en algo siniestro.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Imagination is an old soul.

Freddy, forty is the end of being young. Well, actually thirty's the end of being young forty is where you stop fooling yourself.

Aber die alten Zeiten haben mich zum alten Mann gemacht, mein Freund, und wenn ein alter Mann Angst hat, dann geht er nicht einfach so auf eine Sache los, wie er's getan hat, als er gerade dabei war, zu lernen, wie man sich rasiert.

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Az értelmes élet egy bolygón akkor éri el a nagykorúságot, amikor elsÅ' ízben dolgozza ki saját létének indoklását.

to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...

Sometimes we do not really become adults until after we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes

Voyez-vous, d'après mon expérience, c'est quand on a l'impression de ne pas progresser qu'on avance sans doute le plus. »

Childishness is a common enough sin amongst humans. Perhaps we should not be so quick to judge.

We're all small and harmless once, Archidi. But we all grow up. And some of us grow up needing killing.

And he remembered then where he was, remembered how he'd come to be there, the years it had taken, and last of all he remembered he was old.

An act of art needs time to mature. Judged early, it may be judged incorrectly.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I had a lack of confidence, which caused me to back down from forcefully stated positions; an i was overly emotional at the expense of careful, scientific thought. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was

Of course, an old wine is like an old lady, and traveling can disturb her.