#maturity

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 - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact? ↗

— Kenneth Cain

#cynicism #idealism #maturity #age

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. ↗

— Edward Young

#maturity #self-knowledge #age

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

— Criss Jami

#brain #compatibility #difference #differences #friendship

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. ↗

— Chris Bohjalian

#experience #life-lessons #maturity #age

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities? ↗

— R.C. Sproul Jr.

#growing #maturity #age

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are... ↗

— John Geddes

#identity #maturity #change

He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas. ↗

— T.H. White

#maturity #education

She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty. ↗

— Laura Kalpakian

#maturity #education

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#writing #experience

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience: that is why there is no real teaching of such truths possible and every generation starts from scratch. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#learning #life #living #maturity #simplicity