Quotes About Maturity

Maybe that's what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can." He was watching Gamache closely. "Or should have to.

but if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.' Myrna

At my age I've long since stopped caring what others think.

The others said they wanted to get better, but I think, and this isn't popular in psychology circles' - here she leaned forward and whispered, conspiratorially - 'I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The Little Prince. He hadn't, as a child. It was only as he got older that he knew it to be true.

think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

One thing Gamache knew for sure. Little Frederick Lawson had not picked up his stick, pointed it, and slaughtered a village filled with old men, and women and children. So how did one become the other? How did a nine-year-old boy acting out heroics become a twenty-year-old man committing an atrocity?

you don't get to be old without knowing grief. And loss.

In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch.

many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

Really? You have that ability, Chief Inspector? To just forget? Lucky you." They held each other's eyes. No one with gray in their hair got there without things they'd prefer to forget. But could not.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.' Myrna leaned back again in her chair and took a long breath. 'Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.' 'Waiting for what?

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

I think you have to get better, as you get older. Or, your perspective gets better, even if the work doesn't seem any better. When I was writing songs when I was 17, I was trying to write from a more experienced point of view. As you get older, you're not writing from an imagined point of view. You guess less.

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.

I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.