Maturity Stages Quotes

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.

Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.