858 Quotes About Maturity

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Grown men do not need leaders.