#maturity

I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#tennagers #life

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#existentialism #maturity #youth #youth

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#understanding #understanding

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. ↗

— John le Carre

#any #certainly #committed #democracy #find

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#guidance #immaturity #incapacity #intelligence #use

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. ↗

— Terri Apter

#combining #irresponsibility #maturity #permission #physical

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 though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #maturity #roots #soul #youth

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

— Joshua L. Liebman

#achieved #full #life #maturity #person

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bitter #cynical #i #i am #i do

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

— Stephen King

#age