Quotes about Maturity

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

And still I am learning.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.

One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:

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 that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.