Quotes About Maturity

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

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

Aa our knawledge is hauflin; aa our prophesíein is hauflin: but whan the perfyte is comed, the onperfyte will be by wi. In my bairn days, I hed the speech o a bairn, the thochts o a bairn, the mind o a bairn, but nou at I am grown manmuckle, I am through wi aathing bairnlie… In smaa: there is three things bides for ey: faith, howp, luve. But the grytest o the three is luve.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. William Lyon Phelps

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

But being an addict means that you never stipulate to being an adult. You may, as the occasion requires, adopt the trade dress of a grown-up, showing responsibility and gravitas in spurts to get by, but the rest of the time, you do what you want when you want.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.

Quand la cinquantaine arrive, on est trop vieux pour être jeune. Mais on est encore un peu jeune pour être vieux.

Growth, unlike aging, is not an automatic consequence of

if one accepts Jean Piaget's famous definition of mature intelligence as the ability to coordinate between multiple perspectives (or possible perspectives) one can see, here, precisely how bureaucratic power, at the moment it turns to violence, becomes literally a form of infantile stupidity.

Do you know when childhood ends?" my father once asked me after one of my rants about Nina. "Do you know when people really start to mature? When they can accept that their parents have a right to their own psychology.

I used to drink a lot of beer and brandy when I was in my twenties. Today, I read books and my hangovers are worth talking about.

Thomas Merton characterized it: "One breaks through the limits of cultural structural religion ... [where one experiences] a kind of limitlessness.... lack of inhibition, ... psychic fullness of creativity, which mark the fully integrated maturity of the 'enlightened self.' "116

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.

true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.