Quotes About Maturity

Saps que ets un covard, però la covardia t'és còmoda, i has arribat a l'edat de la comoditat, quan trair és tan fàcil, quan l'egoisme comença a burxar i vols les coses fàcils i busques raons que ho justifiquin. Per qüestions de matís defuges la responsabilitat, la part de responsabilitat que et toca...

Qué es ser hombre, para vos? --Es muchas cosas, pero para mí... bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine seguro, como mi mozo, que hable sin miedo, que sepa lo que quiere, adonde va, sin miedo de nada.

El placer de comer] es un placer que hay que descubrir a los treinta años. Es la edad en que el ser humano deja de ser un imbécil y a cambio paga el precio de empezar a envejecer.

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

tell me how you age, and I will tell you what you were.

As we get older the brain actually gets smarter.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

you can blame everything on your childhood, hold your parents accountable for every little problem you encounter and all the trials and tribulations of your life, blame them for your weaknesses and fears, but in the end, you are solely responsible for all that you are, and the choice of what you will become.

Si el niño que eras, conociera al hombre en que te has convertido ¿crees que se llevarían bien?

C'est l'impatience qui tue l'enfance.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.

it is a mark of the kingdom's political maturity that in times of crisis its leading men would generally come together to debate their differences rather than immediately reaching for their swords.

and he was now almost seventy years old.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...

Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way to behave; then he suddenly discovers that, even for a prince, there are such things as music, literature, not to speak of standing for the post of deputy.

We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always, though it often is, his original character developed or withered, attenuated or enlarged; it is sometimes the exact reverse, like a garment that has been turned.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but youth was the only time in which we learned anything

in later years, one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor's side with a. happy determination which deludes one into the belief that it is not, really, tormenting; but

therefore all childish fear must be put away.