Quotes About Maturity

For all his age and intelligence, Hendrich was fundamentally immature. He was a child. (…) we were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years (…) had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.

Be his [Sophocles']My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,From first youth tested up to extreme old age,Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:Who saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Tis the gradual furnace of the world, In whose hot air poor spirits are upcurl'd Until they crumple, or else grow like steel- Which kills in us the bloom, the youth, the spring- Which leaves the fierce necessity to feel, But takes away the power- this can avail, By drying up our joy in everything, To make our former pleasures all seem stale. - Tristram and Iseult

part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.

when you do for them what they should be doing for themselves, you create entitlement and dependency rather than empowerment.

In so many ways, Ascham thought, she was beyond her years—but in the presence of her father she became a little girl again. So confident and assured in private, now she moved with the stilted awkwardness of every twelve-year-old girl. Ascham's heart went out to her.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.

Age is so misleading--you are the same on the inside as ever, only your outsides are different. Or, perhaps you have changed, but it is not like the younger self goes away--you just go on adding layers to the onion. [Édouard Manet]

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

The child and adult reflect each other like two mirrors endlessly placed face to face. The child that we believe exists is the reflection we desire. We are all indissolubly tied to the fact that the other is facing us the way we are facing him.

The child's consciousness is different from the adult's both in content and organization. Children are not, as previously thought, 'miniature adults.' Thus, contrary to the negative account, the child's consciousness is not identical to the adult's in everything except for its incompleteness and imperfection. The child possess another kind of equilibrium than the adult kind; therefore, we must treat the child's consciousness as a positive phenomenon.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Coco Chanel famously said that "after forty nobody is young, but one can be irresistible at any age.

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

Pessoalmente, jamais admiti que, ao longo de uma discussão, se procurasse garantir vantagem exibindo a certidão de nascimento. (...) Não importa a idade, mas sim a soberana competência do olhar, que sabe ver as realidades da vida, e a força da alma que é capaz de suportá-las e de elevar-se à altura delas

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

a person has to start in the present to acquire some maturity so that the future may be better than the past. The present and the future depend on learning new habits and new ways of looking at old problems