Adults Quote by Raymond Arroyo

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

— Sigmund Freud

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

— Vera Brosgol

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

— Mason Cooley

“But self-mastery triumphs in this Modern Life of ours. So if we haven’t found happiness or calm or balance amidst it all - if…

— Sarah Wilson

“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and of respecting…

— Gabor Maté

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act…

— Patton Oswalt

I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools…

— Patricia McCormick

The young tend to take the things they have for granted while they have them. It is through the passing of time that they…

— Anonymous

“To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems older people maximize their well-being more - they start to realize that life is short.

— Robert J. Waldinger

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

— John Fowles

Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and…

— Eugene Green