Quotes About Maturity

Vom Standpunkt des Weisen aus betrachtet, ist die menschliche Natur kindisch. Befindet man sich in einer Menschenmenge und betrachtet diese wie ein/e Zuschauer/in, wird man viele Kinder miteinander spielen sehen. Sie spielen und kämpfen, sie nehmen sich gegenseitig etwas weg, und sie ärgern sich über sehr unwichtige Dinge. (S. 119)

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities...One doesn't get prizes for this increasing awareness, which sometimes comes with an intensity indistinguishable from pain.

I embraced my mother as well, gently, because I'd outgrown her at age twelve and if I squeezed her too tight, she might snap. You didn't crush flowers, you didn't squeeze birds, and you didn't break your mum.

Take heed, Miss Mackay, you're too young to be practicing such a talent for flirtation. Someday, some poor soul may fight back.

Adults are not always so fun. Sometimes I go to parties filled with mature people who know things and act their age and I"m quickly filled with despair. I walk in the door and greet the host and mill about, but in the pit of my stomach I know that leaving home was a mistake. I will not be surprised and delighted. I will not learn something new. I will not even enjoy the sound of my own voice. I will be lulled into a state of excruciating paralysis and self-hatred and other-people hatred.

I don't mind my age.

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings

There is no difference between growing old and living.

You're too old to be open-minded and tolerant," said Rosie. "I'm too old not to be.

Only a fool would wish to go back who he was.

Only a fool would wish to go back to who he was.

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.