James Jones Quotes

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

Young people are still looking and older people have found.

It's a great place to be at 36 because you're an adult and you're responsible for how you impact other people, the direction of your own life [too], but you're also young enough to say, "You know what? I'm not sure of where I'm at, and I'm going to change that course and do something different. I'm going to look at life differently." I think that's the magic of that age.

Some were getting married; some were getting divorced. People were in different places, but you had enough time on this earth to actually get somewhere, and I think that's the exciting thing about being 36 and in your mid-30s. You've been somewhere, and you're going to go somewhere. It's fun; it's exciting.

People grow up by living.

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

India always changes people, and I have been no exception

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.