Quotes About Maturity

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

My not being a father had kept me young, had kept my curiosity awake.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised!

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

The pupa stage is a short "rest stop" before it becomes an adult.

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.

But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.

sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.

He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey." It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told.

But even the bad stuff in life can teach you something, shape you.

Why did tears make people treat you like a five-year-old when usually they meant something grown-up was going on inside?

because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer, more explicit language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated." He went even further: "The language, too

The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.