Quotes on Maturing

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”


– Calvin Coolidge



“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.”


– Joan Baez



“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”


– Mahatma Gandhi



“Two things you discover when you’re older and wiser — you’re not actually any wiser, and behind the wrinkles, you’re not any older, either.”


– Robert Brault



“You can be beautiful and young even as you get older. Keep an active life.”


– Lailah Gifty Akita



“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”


– Lisa See



“He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well’.”


– Martin Luther King Jr