Quotes About Maturity

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder.

I don't know if it's just me getting older, but things that used to bother me, or that I used to take personally, or maybe since going through a public divorce. I just like, really, it takes a lot to bother me nowadays.

I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball.

I went out with a 40-year-old when I was 19, and since then, I don't really think much about numbers meaning anything. But I do feel like maybe I've neglected to work on developing emotionally and taking care of myself.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don't want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.

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.

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow old or else pay more for remaining the same.

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.

Quanto mais velha fico, menos paciência tenho para mesquinharias e para a busca de coisas superficiais. Existe uma riqueza que não tem nada a ver com dinheiro, e ela vem da perspectiva e da sabedoria de prestar atenção à sua vida. Ela tem tudo e mais um pouco para lhe ensinar. E o que eu sei de verdade é que não existe recompensa maior do que a alegria de um bom aprendizado.

Si può giocare tutto il giorno, ma sentirsi molto più seri di chiunque altro.

YaÅŸlanmam??, ihtiyarlay?p çökmüÅŸ.

Deschisesem discuÈ›ia deoarece È™tiam c? la È™aptezeci È™i trei de ani, când nu avea s? mai poat? tânji dup? alte vieÈ›i, Rüya avea, în sfârÈ™it, s? m? iubeasc?.

The man who is mentally expanding, who is constantly growing larger and becoming broader, fuller, completer, does not age nearly as rapidly as the man who has ceased to grow.

No man can be great who allows himself to get angry.