Quotes About Maturity

less mature a person is, the more he will rely on this basic mode of attaching. Peer-oriented kids like Cynthia are preoccupied with being together, occupying the same space, hanging out, and staying in touch. When attachment is this primitive, the talking can be gibberish and nonsense. "My

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

Then autumn comes, with its first flush of youth gone, but ripe and mellow, midway in time between youth and age, with sprinkled grey showing on the temples.

Age breeds aches.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation — as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

I am now old enough to no longer have a fear of dying young.

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Hath won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Age composes poems upon our faces — with more meaning and fewer rhymes every passing year

My younger passions are still listening as I age.

Age swallows our childhood.

At a certain point, age becomes a triumph of spirit over loneliness.

Age 14. — ...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.

You know you're a grown-up when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.

They're not gray hairs — they're wisdom highlights.

suspended between the carefree child of the Sanctuary I had once been and the confident adult I wished to become.

Life goes on even at the worst of times, and there are some ways no one ever grows up, no matter how long they live or how many lifetimes

You've a way of putting matters into perspective." "You're young." Urist smiled slightly. "You'll learn the trick of it.

Jacqueline Wilson

The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.

And perhaps you can stay longer next time. I sometimes miss the debate my students challenged me with when they stopped being scared of me and before they were mature enough to realize that those who are older may know something after all.