![]() ![]() “Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.” “Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.” “Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” ![]() “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.” “In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they’re a man or a woman and that’s it, but that’s just not true. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.” “If your gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. “If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” “If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.” They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.” “I would have given anything to keep her little. We don’t feel things more as we get older.” You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. “I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. “I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.” “I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible – but that’s what growing up is. “I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe.” “I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.” “I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.” ![]() “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” One day you’re in diapers the next day you’re gone. “For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.” I’ve taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I’ve become those things.” “Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I’ve become. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up.” “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. “Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.” “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” “Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.” “Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. “A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.” ![]() Here are some great quotes about growing up and maturing that are encouraging. From personal experiences to the ponderings of many external questions in life, growing up is not easy for many. ![]()
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