Quotes About Maturity

We can only be young once. But we can always be immature.

Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought there is continual development, there is not always improvement. There is change, but not necessarily growth.

There were hundreds of tiny creases and cracks all over his pale face. A few fine colourless hairs grew on his chin.

Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.

right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn't wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds.

There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth

if you don't grow, you wither

There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth while withstanding all threats by parents to clean up your act.

Some things never change," said Abby wearily. "Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men.

There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a group has matured along the same lines. It seems our comedy dates the quickest. If you laugh out loud at Shakespeare's jokes I hope you won't be insulted if I say you're trying too hard. Even sketches from the original Saturday Night Live seem slow-witted and obvious now.

Sooner or later, the realization arrives: the child discovers the immaturity of the parent, and the parent the maturity of his child.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! David Bowie

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been

It takes great wisdom, maturity, and force of will to overcome ingrained human egotism and say -- "Hey, I can fool myself! I might even be wrong, from time to time." 

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

But if she is a good woman, a strong woman, she won't tolerate your childish needs for a pat on the head, collecting bigger toys, and being king of the mountain. A good woman will love the childlike part of you, but she wants your life to be guided by your deepest truths, not your untended childhood wounds. She wants to feel that at your core you have grown beyond the need for kudos and million-dollar toys. She wants to feel your self-generated strength of truth.

We are designed to outgrow everything

the world might be better off if more people accepted responsibility and dealt with consequences. — Dave Drake david-drake.com

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked. "Not if I can avoid it, no.

Women are almost always angry with us for one reason or another. It's one of the things you'll have to get used to as you get older.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

This, according to the fellows who saw me as fit for a Service career, put me ahead of the curve, to understand this truth at an age when most guys are starting only to suspect the basics of adulthood--that life owes you nothing; that suffering takes many forms; that no one will ever care for you as your mother did; that the human heart is a chump.

It takes a big man to laugh at himself, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.

since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable—if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.