Quotes About Maturity

How will I know I've grown up? When I've started using words I didn't really know the meaning of. I said I did that already and she said yes but I worried about it and grown-ups didn't.

Where does character come into it? Just this: I've always been pretty sure I could kill someone if I had to. Myself, or my father—whichever option proved most practical. I wouldn't kill for hatred's sake; I'd only do it to solve a problem. And only after other solutions have failed. That kind of bottom line is either in your character or it isn't, and like I said, it develops early.

Now that you are a big girl, you must always be more careful and not show those feelings', Alexandra reiterated. 'One must not let others see what one feels inside.'15

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up....part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly.

In realtà, ogni momento della nostra vita è creazione; per un essere cosciente, "esistere" significa cambiare; cambiare nel maturarsi; e maturarsi nel creare se stesso all'infinito.

Words and phrases grew only slowly

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

vu comment il nous traitait, c'était sans doute qu'il avait vécu deux ou trois trucs par le passé qui changent le cœur des hommes.

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night, Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth, To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth; But these go out and leave us with no light.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone—but never hustled.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.