All Quotes By Tag: Maturity

“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn’t know what I was aware of.”

“It wasn’t right that you could only understand your parents’ pain once you’d experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.”

“Willow trees up highbend amid ancient knowledgeshared softly by antique winds.Through attained wisdomthey mature, strong and certain,enchanting the bygone winds”

“The stresses and strains of life mould us into our mature selves. The key to life is to accept the wisdom of our later years while maintaining our youthful enthusiasm and curiosity for the world.”

“It’s not that the old are wiseBut that we thirst for the wisdomwe had at twentywhen we understood everythingwhen our brains bubbledwith tingling insightspercolating up fromour brilliant genitalswhen our music rang like a global siegeshooting down all the lies in the worldoh then we knew the truththen we sparkled like mica in graniteand now we stand on the shoreof an ocean that rises and risesbut is too salt to drink”

“If by growing up you mean allowing the adult within me to abandon the child within me, I have no interest in such a horrid proposition. If instead you mean to let each enhance the other at the exclusion of neither, I have every interest.”

“The question is not how many years I’ve lived. The question is how I lived those many years.”

“Life gives every body a second change: It’s called to….grow!Some bodies (or buddies) grow up, others, to the side, but we will all fall down, after”

“Maturity is knowing when and where we can show our attitude. – Giridhar Alwar.”

“Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“Maturity Can be defined in only One WordUnderstanding”

“When I Was One-And-TwentyWhen I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,`Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.’But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again,`The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain;’Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.’And I am two-and-twenty And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.”

“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”

“Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.”