Quotes About Maturity

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

She smiled and touched the smattering of silver at his temple, a shyness in her, and yet a new self-possession in her as she came to the realization that love turns a girl into a woman, and a man into a boy.

Passage of time lends perspective to one's observations; perspective then leads to wisdom.

A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.

S láskou je to jako s pe?ínkou: ?ím starší jsou zuby, tím mladší musí být jehn?.

We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is "the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state."

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their nature, which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets."

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Her people, like all the other people on earth, were too self-centered, too introspective. Perhaps that was inevitable, for their isolation was well enforced. But as a result the healers has been too shortsighted; by protecting the dreamsnakes, they had kept them from maturing.

Competent men in every position, if they are doing their best, know all that there is to know about their work except how to improve it.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.

He who made you bitter made you wise.

as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom