Mature love is loving, not being loved. — Irvin D Yalom
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' — Erich Fromm
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. — Henry Ward Beecher
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love. — Osho
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. — Giacomo Casanova
True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. — Mark Manson
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! — Leo Buscaglia
Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings. — Mark Manson
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright
True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. — Honore de Balzac
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. — Joyce Brothers
Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit. — C. S. Lewis
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain
Short Mature Love Quotes
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. — Mortimer Adler
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. — Bell Hooks
Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. — Frank Yerby
Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy. — Mark Manson
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path. — Andre Gide
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. — Jackie Collins
Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you. — Elvis Presley
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. — Erich Fromm
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through." When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not. — Tyrese Gibson
Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesnt mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you. — Kezia Dugdale
I'm a little more mature, and a little more aware of the things that I might say. But um, it aint going nowhere because everyone still loves sex, but it's how you present it like I have this one track of Choice," which is a metaphor. — Ginuwine
Listen, Patch, I don’t want to be rude, but—” “Sure you do.” “Well, you started it!” Lovely. Very mature. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Love Maturity Quotes
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other. — Desmond Tutu
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without. — Shams Tabrizi
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love. — Mother Teresa
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving. — Beverly Sills
Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels. — Alexander Lowen
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance. — Aya Kito
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. — Barbra Streisand
When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. — John Mayer
The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback. — Henry Cloud
Mature Person Quotes
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. — Pope John Paul II
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. — Joshua L. Liebman
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands. — Henry Cloud
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ. — Mark Dever
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions. — Marilyn Monroe
There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself. — Logan Paul
Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. — Ken Jeong
It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what. — Sayings
Mature Quotes
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision. — Indira Gandhi
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. — Sigmund Freud
Age is just a number, maturity is a choice. — Harry Styles
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. — Richard Rohr
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson
Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women. — Amrita Pritam
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. — David Wilkerson
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill. — Matthieu Ricard
Being Mature Quotes
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C. S. Lewis
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth
Being an adult is overrated. I refuse to grow up. — Lex Fridman
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one. — Michael Saylor
If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. — Jerome Powell
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. — Louis Farrakhan
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare. — Judi Dench
Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. — Tsukahara Bokuden
A young branch can be straightened, a mature one breaks. — Filipino Proverbs
Age And Maturity Quotes
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age — Jawaharlal Nehru
In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age. — Harry Kane
Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are. — Nicky Gumbel
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. — Maya Angelou
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles. — Eliphas Levi
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. — J. D. Salinger
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies
People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic. — Henry Cavill
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. — Rick Kaplan
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. — Anais Nin
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.' — Jada Pinkett Smith
A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'. — James Thurber
You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love? — Jim James
The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one. — Rita Rudner
Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness. — Osho
Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. — Jackie Collins
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures. — John Stott
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human. — Oscar Wilde
I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world. — William C. Menninger
Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same time she's quite wise beyond her years and very mature and she has that womanly, sexy quality, but at the same time she's very youthful in her clothes. She has that interesting mix between the two. I really love that balance about fashion. — Lily Collins
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. — Barbara Sher
A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are. — Elizabeth Gillies
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money. — Moliere
Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality. — Daisaku Ikeda
Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit. — Gary L. Thomas
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. — Will Durant
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt. — Leo Baeck
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams. — Alice Walker
Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. — Graham Greene
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. — Ann Landers
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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