Quotes about Maturity

Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.

Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

You lose it if you talk about it.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

Train yourself to think of and to look upon the world as a something which is Becoming, which is growing; and to regard seeming evil as being only that which is undeveloped.

The commonest symptoms of this fear are: The tendency to slow down and develop an inferiority complex at the age of mental maturity, around the age of forty, falsely believing one's self to be "slipping" because of age. (The truth is that man's most useful years, mentally and spiritually, are those between forty and sixty).