Quotes About Maturity

So beware. For good or ill, a mature, enthusiastic delight is extremely contagious. This is where's God's Word cuts to the heart of the matter. Foolish companions will induce one another to try out and ultimately to 'study' foolish delights. Skateboarding and computer games come to mind. So do drugs and alcohol.

Although she was in her sixties, Deborah Atlasia was an extremely attractive woman. Her smile radiated charm and grace, and she had a becoming self-assurance. She could fill an empty room with her smile. Her warmth carried over to her eyes. Jade recognized her eyes—they were Allander's down to the crow's-feet that wrinkled from the sides.

She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere?

Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Now that I had become a man (with a leaky fountain pen to prove it), I was ready to take on the world.

Anger and Violence are the last refuge of the incompetent.

Everyone is the age of their heart.

It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.

Por entonces era todavía joven; conocía poco los hombres y la historia: me había tomado en serio lo que me enseñaban en la Universidad.

They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

En nuestra clase social pareciera que solo al llegar a ancianos dejamos de ser «niños» o «niñas». Es común escuchar «deberías andar con ese niño» o «esa niña es increíble» al hablar de hombres y mujeres que rebasan los cuarenta años. La absoluta infantilización del lenguaje que engendra adolescentes cuarentones.

Part of getting old is checking oneself constantly. Keeping a good firm grip on the handrail. Making sure you're still you.

Our path leads to the threshold of maturity. Once you arrive at it, you are also worthy of receiving that gift. In either case, you will have become a phoenix: it is up to you to get there by force.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Only four years ago they had presumably been carefree, single girls laughing in a disco and now, as if hardened by some battle, they were assertive, humourless creatures he would not care to live with.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

Praise be to the Weaver and all the gods!' said Shalhassan of Cathal. 'Finally she's done something adult!

You had to grow into your own significance—or come to terms with the lack of it.

You would not have believed," he said. "You would always have doubted. We needed to grow older, you and I, for me to say this and you to hear it.

Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else's life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.