Quotes About Maturity

Por desgracia, Jesús se aparecía a los chicos con imaginaciones febriles, no a hombres sobrios y racionales.

He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties. He would have to learn slowly, like everyone else.

There is a special mixture of wisdom and innocence that comes only to adolescents. - Ursula Dewar

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.