Quotes About Maturity

One sign of maturity is a realization of the extent to which you, either intentionally or unintentionally, make life difficult for those around you. Consequently, you should keep in mind the words of Seneca: "we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another."1

One sign of maturity is a realization of the extent to which you, either intentionally or unintentionally, make life difficult for those around you. Consequently, you should keep in mind the words of Seneca: "we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest

That toil of growing up;The ignominy of boyhood; the distressOf boyhood changing into man;The unfinished man and his pain.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

An old man's eagle mind.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

The Coming of Wisdom with Time 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.

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights, of a mind of uncommon excellence.

A smart man learns from experience; a wise man learns from the experience of others.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

If you decide to buy bonds or a bond fund, make sure the average maturity is less than the time horizon of the savings.

Treasury securities issued with a maturity of one year or less are called "bills"; from one to 10 years, "notes"; and over 10 years, "bonds." Notes and bonds yield an interest coupon every six months. Bills do not—rather, they are issued at a discount and redeemed at par; the difference is their "yield.")

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

I was little more than a child still wrapped in a soothing blanket of illusion

It's as if your parents have to die before you really understand who they are.

My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that...You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to...see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.