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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
Haniel Long
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
Lewis B Hershey
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Huston Finley
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
Robert S. Hillyer
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
Ernest Hemingway
Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare
A glimpse of any one moment in a life can be deeply misleading. A man at 20 who appears the model of altruism may turn out to be a kind of emotional prodigyhttp://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness
Joshua Wolf Shenk, What Makes Us
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
George Eliot
Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.
Rachel Wolchin
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.
Source Unknown
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Proverb
