#maturity

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#youth #youth

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#implies #living #maturity

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life. ↗

— Burt Ward

#answer #balance #call #could #did

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#commonplace #human #laugh #make #maturity

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#least #maturity #sometimes #success #temporarily

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#college #concerned #far #feel #goofball

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#child #granted #happiness #his #maturity

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#change #clear #did #films #flower

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#experience #maturity #perspective #experience

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ideal #immaturity #many