For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
Erich Maria RemarqueWhen I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. LewisTag: maturity adult childishness
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua Loth LiebmanNobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Michael CrichtonTag: maturity
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
Anne BishopTag: questions answers maturity
At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Tag: age self-knowledge maturity
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T.S. EliotTag: humor imitation writing originality maturity plagiarism
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.
John SteinbeckTag: on-writing maturity
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John C. MaxwellTag: inspirational self-responsibility maturity
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia WoolfTag: maturity
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