Quotes About Maturity

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

As grown women, we have kids and we should be able to sit down and discuss issues without getting violent and having to cross someone's territory.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

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 suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

If I try to do something, I try to do the best, and I'm a grown man and I have my vision of life and my personal ambitions.

take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Jack Kornfield said: "A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance." In therapy we aim for self-compassion (Am I human?) versus self-esteem (a judgment: Am I good or bad?).

Some people hope that therapy will help them find a way to be heard by whoever they feel wronged them, at which point those lovers or relatives will see the light and become the people they'd wished for all along. But it rarely happens like that. At some point, being a fulfilled adult means taking responsibility for the course of your own life and accepting the fact that now you're in charge of your choices. You have to move to the front seat and be the mommy dog driving the car.

early experiences inform who they are as adults so that they can separate the past from the present

Freedom involves responsibility, and there's a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

It's not about lowering your standards—it's about maturing and having reasonable expectations.

As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn't qualify as sacrifice.

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin' like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.