A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成熟
Maturity
Give her bells and let her fly.
给她铃铛，让她自由飞翔。
It's no good trying to bite your navel.
咬肚脐是没有用的。
Age is just a number. Maturity is a choice.
年龄只是一个数字。成熟是一种选择。
You can't eat the rice cake in the picture.
你不能吃图片里的年糕。
Old sheep shouldn't dress in lamb's fashion.
老羊不应该穿羔羊的衣服。
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
年龄是为成熟付出的高昂代价。
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
成熟只是青春期的短暂休息。
By seeing one spot you know the entire leopard.
看到一个地方，你就了解了整个豹。
Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.
男孩在成熟程度上比女孩落后两年。
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
成熟始于乐于奉献。
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
当你第一次真正嘲笑自己的时候，你就长大了。
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
自信来自于成熟，更能接受自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
阁下，虽然您的青春还未逝去，但您的内心却已有些苍老的气息，有些岁月的咸味。
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
我想真正的成熟是当你意识到你不是宇宙的中心时，这是我们大多数人从未达到的。
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
诀窍在于强调什么。我们要么让自己痛苦，要么让自己快乐。工作量是一样的。
The touchstone of moral growth is a progressive displacement of reaction by action.
道德成长的试金石是用行动逐步取代反应。
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
如果成长是一个创造关于生活应该是什么的想法和梦想的过程，那么成熟就是再次放手。
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
当你的孩子不再问你他们从哪里来，拒绝告诉你他们要去哪里时，你就知道他们正在成长。