Quotes About Maturity

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child ...

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's a very next step to being dull.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age.

Age 39. — It's weird, when you're 39 it starts to happen...

Age 40. — I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.

Age 45. — Thrice fifteen summers have their foliage cast...