858 Quotes About Maturity

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.