Quotes About Maturity

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Humans have not fully evolved from idiots yet.

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we got so old!

According to parents we're too young for love, too old for fun, too smart to play dumb and too immature for grown up conversations. Its no wonder teens are so rebellious! There's nothing else to do!

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

For some, the unborn child is sacred to a degree the teenager never attains.

Pero el tiempo corre y la vuelve a ella cada día más apetecible, más madura, más fresca, más mujer, y en cambio a mi me amenaza cada día con volverme más achacoso, más gastado, menos valiente, menos vital.

Porque la experiencia es buena cuando viene de la mano del vigor;

Un niño de mi clase dice que su abuela es una vieja de mierda. Yo le enseñé que en todo caso debe decir una anciana de mierda.

Que yo me sienta, todavía hoy, ingenuo e inmaduro (es decir, con sólo los defectos de la juventud y casi ninguna de sus virtudes) no significa que tenga el derecho de exhibir esa ingenuidad y esa inmadurez

Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.

She believes her parents do not love her less, only that before, she had a child's notion of love that did not include the small treacheries of delusion and fear and shame.

We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.

We can be very cruel to one another, even when we're old enough to know better, when we've outgrown the intense selfishness of youth. She

When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We're spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It's as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that's fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you're twenty-two, it's a problem! Newsflash:

There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!