Maturity Quotes

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

There's no such thing in aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I was a worshipper of the foolhardy and the melodramatic, a dreamer and a moper, raging at life and loving it, a mind in a chrysalis yet erupting with sudden bursts of maturity.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today, I call it 'maturity'.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.