Quotes About Maturity

I'm not 40, I'm 18 with 22 years of experience." ? Unknown

But when you get to where I am in life, you realize that we are who we end up being because of each and every experience we've had. To pull one would unravel the entire masterpiece." I

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

I had lived with Aunt Cordelia too long to enjoy being called "Julie, baby" or "Honeybun" or "Sugar." They were foolish in the first place and rather revoltingly sticky for someone who was strictly a high protein girl.

Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them slumber within us, and worse, we let them die, rot, so much so that the generous impulses that sweep through our souls when we are twenty we later call naive, foolish…Our purest, most passionate loves take on the depraved appearance of sordid pleasure.

It was at 25, not 15, that I began to write. Yes, there were attempts before, writing attempts, but they were the mere scribbling of a child who through no fault of her own knew only half an alphabet. Now, in my 27th year, it is appetite I have, and abundance to garner. I can make up for lost time—and time is what I have to seek some truths and pull together some lost pieces. It's okay. I'll do it. I'll make up those years.

Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

Youth has a small head

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are . The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Youth isn't the problem—it'll pass with the years…

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

The child who prefers feeling becomes more adult in the handling of human relationships. The child who prefers thinking grows more adept in the organization of facts and ideas. Their basic preference for the personal or the impersonal approach to life results in distinguishing surface traits.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

I used to hate boys... I grew up... Things changed. Now I hate men.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

Years and sins are always more than owned.

Às vezes a gente se imagina incompleto e é apenas jovem.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

A veces uno se cree incompleto y es solamente joven.

A volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.