Quotes About Maturity

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

Even now, I struggle to convince myself that I'm a fully grown adult, doing fully adult things. I'm not sure the ageing, wrinkled exterior ever quite convinces the innocent inner child that this is the real deal, that this is what's really happening.

Argument involves the true respect that comes from treating others as adults who can cope with challenging ideas and expecting them to treat you with a similar courtesy.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......

Begu laughed, but it was a soft laugh, quite grown-up, and it made Hild long to hold her and shield her from the world.

She swung her hair back from her face and eyed me sullenly, now the perfect teenager. Infant to child to teen in one day. With any luck she'd be dead of old age before we reached the clearing.

Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes, it is all true to life. All this can happen to a man. The ardent youth of today would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road: you will not pick them up again afterwards!

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

And what in earlier years would have brought animation to my face, arousing laughter and incessant chatter, now slips past me and my immobile lips preserve an impassive silence. Oh my youth! Oh my freshness!

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

Agatha was brought up to get on with things, to keep her head and never make a fuss.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go of everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own.