Quotes About Maturity

Not everything children experience has to be put on their level in order to do them good. Some things must be. But not everything.

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We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

If you are open to your growth potential, you will attract that for which you are willing to be responsible."  Rudi

Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature . . .

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Some people grow up at 15, some at 38. It is more painful at 38.

The function of art—Freud says "wit"—is to help us find our way back to sources of pleasure that have been rendered inaccessible by the capitulation to the reality-principle which we call education or maturity—in other words, to regain the lost laughter of infancy

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Büyümek, yaln?z tutunanlara gerekli.

Sende çocukça bir büyüklük var

Duygular?n? saklamaya çal??acak kadar e?itimden geçmemi?.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

I sat where I was, more depressed than ever, hating the whole hopeless, stupid business and wondering whether the human species would ever grow up enough to learn to communicate without using fists of one kind or another.

It's too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won't happen after all—or maybe it will only happen to other people. That kind of thinking is part of what it means to be adolescent.

What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you

The kids seem all right, but the adults. ... I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!