Vernon Howard Quotes

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

Emotionally, I'm about 13.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.

I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

I am very emotional, and I get really upset when any of my films flop. I also get hurt over silly things. That is the way I am; I can't help it.

I was a sensitive kid.

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.