Quotes About Maturity

a velhice não nos dá nenhuma sabedoria, simplesmente autoriza outras loucuras.

A velhice é uma gordura na alma.

A velhice não é uma idade, é uma decisão. - Uma decisão? - A velhice é uma desistência.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

Your first period may unequivocally announce puberty, but your first 9–5 doesn't definitively mean you've grown up.

The more the girls heard, the more it became clear that Uncle Jake and their straight-laced father had been first-class juvenile delinquents.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

You are an old soul, fortunately housed in very lovely wrapping.

growth covers up a lot of sins.

We have given this country the spiritual will and the moral maturity it lost in the bitter divorce of principle and practice. Our nation can only reach its best

89) Dudley And Harry Remained Friends Despite Harry and Dudley not getting along at all when they were kids, they ended up seeing each other several times after the Battle of Hogwarts. They would keep in touch and see one another whenever they were in close proximity of each other. The children hated it, but Dudley and Harry felt an unspoken obligation to be family in one way or another.

I think it's true that the older you get, the more you cry

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

For most of my life, I've always been the youngest one at the table, and it's something I've come to expect, maybe take for granted.

I don't want you seeing so many R-rated movies!" she said, trying to be a mother. "Mom, life is an R-rated subject.

I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn, and now it's time to grow up.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. — WILLIAM JAMES

Those driven by emotion (children, the mentally ill, hormonal men and women alike) don't freak out when they get their way; they freak out when they're not getting their way.

Souls in a high state of advancement are often found in humble circumstances on Earth. By the same token, people in the upper strata of influence in human society are by no means in a blissful state of soul maturity. Often, just the reverse is true.

She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.

Everything a child experiences, either by way of indulgence or the self-restraint you impose, is preparing him for the day when he will mature into a responsible, moral soul. Somewhere on that road of development, each child will graduate to commence his full accountability. That child then stands alone before God, "without excuse." It becomes his day of accountability.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)