Quotes About Maturity

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

you are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you'll look back in twenty years and howl.

you are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false.

world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I'd once been.

Because in your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

There are some things you can't understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding. It's good you've worked hard to resolve childhood issues while in your twenties, but understand that what you resolve will need to be resolved again. And again. You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

Anything else? To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. This is good advice for anyone at any age, but particularly for those in their twenties.

Why? Because in your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it.

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.

Accounting for what happened in our childhoods and why and who our parents are and how they succeeded and failed us is the work we all do when we do the work of becoming whole, grown-up people.

For some of you, those things have already happened.

Leroy was sixteen and the oldest so he thought he was too good to drive. Let baby boys do that, he'd say.

Kids were always writing FUCK on things. Hollis Jurkowski had always wondered whether the students, ranging in age from five to twelve, really knew what it meant or whether they just wrote it because they knew the word was particularly upsetting to grownups.

Why did we grow up? Things were so much simpler earlier. -Aarti

Se bem que Benjamin Zambraia seja um senhor bastante conservado. Melhor: um rapaz recém-envelhecido.

The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are.

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable...

Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

...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...