Quotes About Maturity

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Now here are three stages of wisdom: the unwise person blames other people for what are, in the end, her own judgments about things; the person who is making progress does not blame others, but only herself; the wise person does not blame even herself.

Real ethical development is hard work and takes a long time.

Forgiveness comes later in life, after you've created enough disasters of your own.

Cuando los adultos se aplican, superan siemrpe un nuevo umbral de crueldad

fin y al cabo, a lo largo de la vida, se aprende, se experimenta y se madura; pero cambiar, lo que se dice cambiar, no se cambia mucho porque uno es, en todo momento, el que siempre ha sido.

A student of wisdom becomes a professor of life.

When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.

Moon almost full I'm thirty-nine a child still

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

For decades and decades and decades I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

She is smiling at me. It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.

Most people grow up gradually, over many years, but standing there in the still forest, Nikolas lost his childhood in a second. Nothing makes you grow up quicker than discovering your father is not the man you think he is.

it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you were wrong about stuff.

Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan

It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.

I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

But you'll know when you find yourself, because then you will stop ageing.

The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.

sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realize it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

And I felt an incredible excitement at being able to witness the love reemerge inside her, because it was a total, prime-of-life love. The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

Sometimes, the only way to learn is to live