Quotes About Maturity

Adult Mohaves encouraged the young to indulge themselves sexually while they could, so that by their mid-teens, they were jaded

The bus-driver was whistling, perhaps in anticipation of his wife, who would be a woman with ample breasts, those of a realized maturity. It would be impossible that he did not have, from my point of view, a wife and children, indeed, a happiness such as I could not imagine to be real, even like some legend out of the golden ages. He had spoken numerous times during our journey of his old woman waiting, and he was going home.

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.

Let him grow up, I was thinking the whole time. That's an old prayer. It comes in every language.

Pero que los pensamientos estén los libros y sean leídos no significa que el tiempo esté maduro ya para ellos.

But, above all it is the education of adolescents that is important, because adolescence is the time when the child enters on the state of [adult]hood and becomes a member of society.

There is a time for the maturing of thoughts such as there is a time for the maturing of wheat, of wine, of stars…

I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.

When you have grown old, newness always comes from the inside.

Seriously, why didn't Brody or I know about the neighbors? It's not like I'm a dog. I'm not going to hump them in public." At Mike's look, he flushed. "For God's sake, I was twenty years old and drunk. The girl wasn't even real. It was a mannequin and it was all Brody's idea.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.