Quotes About Maturity

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Quando si diventa adulti, non si ascolta più, e quando si ascolta, per sbaglio, lo si fa con la condiscendenza divertita i chi crede di aver vissuto.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

As you grow older, you change.

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' – 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' – Ben Jonson, 1637-1673

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Vita eundo vires acquirimus. In life we gather strength as we go.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

Love is just a number and maturaity is just a level

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

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

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.