Quotes About Maturity

Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

My idea about the whole thing was that most people weren't alcoholics, they only thought that they were. It was something that couldn't be rushed. It took at least twenty years to become a bonafide alcoholic. I was on my 45th year and didn't regret any of it.

ihminen voi olla vanha ja tyhmä ? monet ovat, ihminen voi olla nuori ja viisas ? harvat ovat.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. ? Charles Bukowski, Women (: Ecco; Reprint edition, February 27, 2007) Originally published 1978.

According to the latest scientific study it takes 325 years for the last brain cell to pop. Now I realize that most of the girls I met in bars and brought home with me were lying about their age.

Biliyor musun doktor, insan?n akl? ba??na çok tuhaf zamanlarda geliyor - ya gençlik tükendikten sonra, ya f?rt?na dindikten sonra, ya da k?zlar eve gittikten sonra.

Being condescending, rude, or insulting says more about you than your intended target. Your words boomerang right back at you--and you're the one who looks like a fool.

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

I sometimes imagine meeting my seventeen-year-old self. She's still here inside me somewhere. Maybe one morning in the mirror, there she'll be. I look at her with affection and understanding and hope. She sees me and backs away in horror while I try to explain why I made the choices I made.

Children rediscover their parents wisdom when they finally become adults themselves.

That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along.

Time partially reconciles us to anything.

Has the fellowship served to make the individual free, strong, and mature, or has it made him weak and dependent? Has it taken him by the hand for a while in order that he may learn again to walk by himself, or has it made him uneasy and unsure?" —LIFE TOGETHER

UNA DE LAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DE LA MADUREZ es la habilidad de estar en desacuerdo sin ser desagradable.

but he understands she's twenty now (how did that happen?)

Some people you just do not want to leave outside the tent pissing in, and in my early twenties, self-confident and naïve, I was about as safe to leave lying around unsupervised as half a ton of sweating gelignite.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you're a child.

The writer was coming into maturity, looking at life and death as if they were the same, a coming from darkness and a returning to it, a brief, bright, glorious span that was often marred by man's own incapacity to learn and trust.

Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.