Quotes About Maturity

I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.

A great thing of getting older is coming to terms and saying sorry and trying to repair damage that happened in the past.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Age don't mean nothing. I'm an old soul.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

I do think that some people are born as old souls.

I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

I want to stay humble and not sound cocky. But at the same time I don't want to be the little high schooler.

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.

Love is growing up.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.

Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.

Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.

In life, we are constantly growing.There are no true adults because our life experiences and sometimes unfortunate conditions show us that constant growth is part of the human story.