Quotes About Maturity

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say, "I wish Fate hadn't made me this sort of man.

No; it is not well to rule one's self by theories. We think, when we are very young, that theories, or "philosophies" as we term them, are guiding lights, held out by Wisdom over the pathway of life; we learn, as we grow older, that, too often, they are mere will-o'-the-wisps, hovering over dismal swamps where dead men's bones lie rotting.

No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was.

Adulthood is the ability to be totally bored and remain standing.

Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

In walked a woman whose attitude was certainly in its fifties if she was not.

Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.

Relax," Edith says. "The perfect name will come to you in time." Which is when Gogol announces, "There's no such thing." "No such thing as what?" Astrid says. "There's no such thing as a perfect name. I think that human beings should be allowed to name themselves when they turn eighteen," he adds. "Until then, pronouns.

But it was another to be authoritative; Bengali had never been a language in which she felt like an adult.

There had been a brittle quality to her, something unyielding, a young person who carried about her a premonition of old age.

It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.