Quotes About Maturity

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

Sometimes one wise voice that has been in the world for a while and evolved, lived the same human drama from a few different angles, can provide more nuance than any two-sided debate.

That moment when she'd crouched behind the tree…it did something to her, something that made her grow up and toughen up. But one question throbbed in her brain for a long, long time. Why? Why would Liam say something so hateful? How could he—who had tamed a stray and starving cat—be so cruel to a girl who had only ever wanted to be his friend?

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.

Adam loves me. I know he loves me. To think I thought it was a tree. A knothole. Some kind of hole, yes, but really, I am such an idiot. Almost forty, and pathetically naive.

Let the children enjoy what they have before they become too burdened with the cares of adults.

Only experience, she had learned somewhere along the way, led to wisdom.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.

How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps?

Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart.

Children become adults who become children again.

There seems every reason to suppose that the therapeutic relationship is only one instance of interpersonal relations, and that the same lawfulness governs all such relationships. Thus it seems reasonable to hypothesize that if the parent creates with his child a psychological climate such as we have described, then the child will become more self-directing, socialized, and mature.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

People were not peaches. Like guns and saddles, they were all the better for becoming slightly worn.

Then your mother and I did our jobs. Whatever we instilled in you back then, what you rejected because you didn't understand, you now accept. With age comes wisdom. Only by living life can you figure out what's truly important.

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.

As we mentioned in the preamble, banks' role in effecting maturity transformation—transforming short-term deposit funding into long-term loans—makes them uniquely vulnerable to bank runs

Es la gran ventaja que tiene hacerse viejo, ¿sabe? Uno consigue ver el desenlace de lo que vivió. Sí, esa es la mejor manera de juzgar las cosas, tener un poquito de perspectiva; y eso solo lo da el tiempo.

Are you the same person today—as a college sophomore—as you were in the third grade?" he asked the student. "No, of course not," she replied. "Then something happened to you that made you grow, that forced you to look at the world differently. That event is your momentous occasion.

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

Humility is a difficult lesson.

I'm old with living. So much older than almost thirteen.

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.