858 Quotes About Maturity

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Maturity means being able to accept the fact that sometimes the things that we wish for will create the histories that we don’t wish for.

One of our most serious challenges is that we mature sexually way before we do mentally. And what’s worse is that mental maturity is not even guaranteed.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Chong said, "Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.""Yes, Confucius, I know. Girls are people. Wisom of the ages. Nix is a girl and therefore a person. I know that.""Really?" said Chong as he watched Benny vanish around a corner. "Maybe if you looked her in the eyes, she'd know that you know.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notion that a teenager in any sense knows who she is with the level of certainty sufficient to entrust her with life-altering decisions.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.