Quotes About Maturity

The trouble with a kitten is that....... It eventually becomes a cat!

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Yet most of these worlds were really no worse than our own. Like us, they had reached that stage when the spirit, half awakened from brutishness and very far from maturity, can suffer most desperately and behave most cruelly.

Thus, though there is normally no such thing as sin among the stars, no deliberate choice of the course known to be wrong for the sake of some end known to be irrelevant, there is ignorance, and consequent aberration from the pattern of the ideal as revealed to stars of somewhat maturer mentality.

But children aren't people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say "no.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his early years.

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

Zazen-gi cautions us to come out of samadhi calmly and to move the body naturally. It further teaches us how to get to our feet with dignity and what to do after doing so. It writes, "Even after getting out of samadhi, you should always be on the alert to act responsively and protect your power of concentration as you protect a baby. Then, it will be easy for you to cultivate your power of concentration until it comes to maturity.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along?the same person that I am today.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Most people would take me for over forty.

This year I am twenty-seven. My hair has become much greyer. Most people would take me for over forty.

The five brothers and sisters, and I myself, have gradually grown more adult, more polite, more guarded—have become, in short, "members of society"—and when we do on occasion meet, it's not the least bit fun.

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