Quotes About Maturity

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Their well-prepared passion had finally reached maturity through that which tends to deaden passions: gratification.

Men are like books, often understood and appreciated too late.

Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

Dear math, grow up and solve your own problems I am tired of solving them for you.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

Los niños lloran la muerte, pero los hombres y mujeres nunca lloran: se sobre ponen a ella.

Little kids, little problems. Wait till you've got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.

This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out.

She made the right choice for the girl she was then.

Perhaps all grown-ups were just children carefully putting on their grown-up disguises each day and then acting accordingly.

I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise.

It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.

Now it seemed like she could twist the lens on her life and see it from two entirely different perspectives. The perspective of her younger self. Her younger, sillier, innocent self. And her older, wiser, more cynical and sensible self.

Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on.

Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah.

forty being the "precise age where you're old enough and young enough to handle a revelation".

been walking home from the hairdresser's, feeling gorgeous, and a gaggle of teenage girls walked by, and the sound of their strident giggles made her send a message back through time to her fourteen-year-old self: "Don't worry, it all works out. You get a personality, you get a job, you work out what to do with your hair, and you get a boy who thinks you're beautiful.

Now it seemed like she could twist the lens on her life and see it from two entirely different perspectives. The perspective of her younger self. Her younger, sillier, innocent self. And her older, wiser, more cynical and sensible self. And

You know, Madison, people are going to say mean things to you all through your life, and if you keep reacting like that, you're going to end up in jail.

Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on. Say

Not the angry, demanding cry of a child who wants attention, or the startled cry of a child who has hurt himself. This was a grown-up type of crying: involuntary, soft, sad, weeping.

The middle-aged woman she would have become, so sure of herself and her place in the world, bossy and loving, condescending and impatient with her dear old mum,