The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

It’s really nice to see him mature and handle pressure and try to be a positive influence to everyone who is around him. I think he is getting there. That’s the joy of teaching high...

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

There is no night porter wandering about in King’s. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform...

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be...

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as...

You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.

There’s no incentive to go into that longer maturity now.

To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of traditional cultures were to initiate the youth into a simpler society, a more...

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic –...

There’s a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

maturity”, animated lives around him, it might be said that Reverend Gwyon had reached maturity.

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don’t enjoy…

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

Maturity is when we can differentiate between our wants and needs and treat them as such.

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only...

As a writer of philosophy, it’s good to ask oneself, ‘Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Being nice to someone who did you foul in the past is kinda like a mature way of getting revenge because it sometimes confuses the hell out of them & brings them to the realization...

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?

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

College was to teach me that I was one of life’s journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

…I have decided that I shan’t sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they ought to come. And in the meantime, I shall continue to...

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

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

It takes maturity and practice and patience to spread chunky peanut butter evenly on crumbly bread.

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build...

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...

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to...

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sleep.

There comes a time in your life where youhave to live without the wo/man of yourdreams and have to live with the one in your reality.That is called maturity

What I’ve found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you’re blue in the face–they’re never going to get it and they’re never going to change. But every once...

MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake over, sickening and masterful — Some say, desired.And this...

Hey, can I come in?

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I’ll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least...

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How many human beings go through the world frozen with rage against...