Quotes About Maturity

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it.

work toward curing yourself of the need to blame. Move beyond thinking about fault and blame.

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Conway and Ross referred to this self-serving memory distortion as "getting what you want by revising what you had." On the larger stage of life, many of us do just that: We misremember our history as being worse than it was, thus distorting our perception of how much we have improved so that we'll feel better about ourselves now.15 All of us do grow and mature, but generally not as much as we think.

The happiest, most mature adults were those who could embrace the losses in their lives and transform them into sources of deep gratitude—not with platitudes or Pollyanna glosses, say the researchers, but by discovering the genuinely positive aspects of their multifaceted lives.

Everyone has expectations. They are the soul of the human condition, for they reflect the human ability to anticipate the future, to dream, and to hope. The complementary human ability is to bring those expectations into resolution with reality, what folks used to call maturity.

I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.

You don't grow old, you become old by not growing.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

You grow through love. You don't postpone love until you stop growing.

we're too old to be young.

Most kids are assholes, just like most adults.

And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.

That's a cheat,' I say. 'You can't go through life blaming your childhood for the way you are as an adult.

Boys my age are stupid. Do you think that means I'm gonna die alone?

you get older, you realize that you don't really hate anyone, even your shitty parents, because everyone's just doing the best they can.

time I wanted to explain the perils of growing

is that in some deep and important personal respects you stop growing when you start drinking alcoholically. The drink stunts you, prevents you from walking through the kinds of fearful life experiences that bring you from point A to point B on the maturity scale.

Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up.

the most potent reward for parenthood I have known has been delight in my fully grown progeny. They are friends with an extra dimension of affection. True, there is also an extra dimension of resentment on the children's part, but once offspring are in their thirties, their ability to love their parents, perhaps in contemplation of the deaths to come, expands, and, if one is fortunate, grudges recede. []p. 209]

The line between stupid teenaged behavior that causes an end to teenaged lives and stupid teenaged behavior that turns into a prank is very thin. Kids

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?