Quotes About Maturity

What she gained was the insight that comes from experience.

self-insight"—a mature understanding of our capabilities and motivations—and it's correlated with an array of positive outcomes, ranging from good relationships to a sense of purpose in life. Self-insight and psychological well-being go together.

After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

I find that the older I get, the clearer I want things to be. I think this is a natural symptom of maturation — as we age, mysteries pile up, and they're usually not the fun ones: Just how long do I have? Why do some people get what they deserve, and others don't? Why are certain problems so easy to solve, while others are totally impossible? Will they ever, ever bring working jetpacks to the marketplace?

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help

A spiritual disciple, being internally good and kind, may project these qualities to others who are not mature and not kind. This may lead to gullibility and being easily fooled by others. A disciple must be on guard against this tendency.

It's deeply damaging to portray fit, fully-formed adults as children who need to be protected. We should be raising them to understand that there will be moments in life when you need to protect yourself — and, in a 'horrible' world, there may come moments when you have to choose between protecting yourself or others," Steyn wrote.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.

It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not particularly needed. She

Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and save the world. Then you get a little bit older, maybe Little Bee's age, and you realize that some of the world's badness is inside you, that maybe you're a part of it.

Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

and you start wondering whether that badness you've seen in yourself is really all that bad at all..." "Maybe that's just developing as a person, Sarah" I sighed, and look out at Little Bee "Well" I said. "Maybe this is a developing world.

He doesn't believe butt time on planet Earth doesn't neccessarily makes you wise.

You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

Maybe the only two good things about getting older is the waning of want and no fear of loneliness.

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.