Quotes About Mature Love

#1. The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Joss Whedon

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Boyd K. Packer

#5. I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#6. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

#7. 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

#8. Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#10. India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

Will Durant

#11. Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Alain De Botton

#12. Remember, the opposite of rational is not always irrational, but it can also be transrational or bigger than the rational mind can process; things like love, death, suffering, God, and infinity are transrational experiences. Both myth and mature religion understand this.

Richard Rohr

#13. Once you've charmed a girl and prove how mature and independent you are, just ask her out.

Auliq Ice

#14. I nipped little kisses along his jawline. God, I just couldn't keep my hands or lips off of him. "God, you are the most delicious thing I have ever tasted."
He laughed. "That's something the vampire should be saying to you, not the other way around.

Tish Thawer

#15. You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things.

Will Durant

#17. Love for God is never instant. It has to grow and mature just like any other kind of love. The struggle is always with our will.

Lynn Austin

#18. Just like in any relationship, things changed. We changed. We both made mistakes and we both learned a lot. We may love each other differently, but maybe that is a good thing. Maybe it is more forgiving and more mature, or maybe it is just different.

Chris Kyle

#19. Well till 50's one must not think of being old - and should be able to run and have fun both ... having few grey means that you have mature approach !!

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#20. She knew Neal loved her.
Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

Rainbow Rowell

#21. Often times you may find yourself in a relationship with a guy who looks like he is a mature adult, but then you find out that he's just a selfish baby underneath that wonderful expensive cologne.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#22. 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

#23. My take is you "should" become a parent if and when you're ready for it! Could be when you're twenty or when you're forty. I don't think age really matters if you are mature enough and have enough love within you.

Hannah Sullivan

#24. Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.

Tisha Marie Payton, MHR

#25. Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

Jim George

#26. 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

#27. Truly mature people are so detached from others that they can love their enemies, bless those who curse them, do good to those who hate them, and pray for those who despitefully use and persecute them. (See Matthew 5:44.)

Kevin FitzMaurice

#28. Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.

David Elkind

#29. I dream of a love in which two people share a passion to search together for some higher truth. Perhaps I should not call it love. Perhaps it's real name is friendship.

Irvin D. Yalom

#30. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#31. POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.

Bijou Hunter

#32. He doesn't have to love your CD collection. He doesn't have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family - especially when they're great.

Greg Behrendt

#33. I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

Claire Wong

#34. If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Joyce Meyer

#35. I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.

Burning Spear

#36. Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#37. 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

#38. To love, to support each other in every step we take leads us to reach the mature growth.

Euginia Herlihy

#39. Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person.

Archie Lee

#40. Start behaving like the mature woman you are, and acknowledge the fact that you have flaws. And give the poor devil a chance to prove that he can love you regardless.

Lisa Kleypas

#41. The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.

Nhat Hanh

#42. Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

Jeffrey Kluger

#43. 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

#44. Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.

Henry Cloud

#45. There is a third truth, which only the mature lover will be able to hear. My spouse's criticisms about my behavior provide me with the clearest clue to her primary love language.

Gary Chapman

#46. 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

#47. No one can claim they are mature until they experience the hallucinogenic ramifications of being in love, and undertaken an urgent personal assessment and soul-searching discernment that is mandated after experiencing the bitterness of losing in the love game.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#48. My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#49. I love you Rose, I love you with everything that I am, which may not be much, but it's all yours.

Tish Thawer

#50. 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?

M.R. James

#51. All because I fell in love with a madman.

Carrie Butler

#52. The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

Leo Baeck

#53. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#54. If I cannot be loving alone, if I can be loving only with someone I love, then I am not really mature yet. Then

Osho

#55. Tsk, Tsk, Sunshine. I believe I have a wanton wench on my hands. Unfortunately for you, I'm in control here, not you.

Lainie Suzanne

#56. I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.

Andy Roddick

#57. I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

Krista Allen

#58. 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

#59. Saying 'Love you' never creates a story, its the beginning of trouble.

Sumanta Goswami

#60. Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

Graham Greene

#61. I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do," I breathed, trying hard to pretend I wasn't fazed by what just happened. "You weren't listening to me."
He stared at me with intensity for several seconds. "That's an interesting way to get my attention.

Alicia Kobishop

#62. And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Donald Miller

#63. I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

Scott Spencer

#64. What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.

Rajneesh

#65. 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

#66. I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

Alber Elbaz

#67. Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Leon Uris

#68. You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

Nicholas Sparks

#69. The mature response to the problem of existence is love.

Erich Fromm

#70. Rose, come here. Christian grabbed my hand and guided me back down on the couch next to him.

Tish Thawer

#71. Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

Thomas Merton

#72. First love is like dat," Brennus says tiredly. "But, den ye mature and find a deeper love, one dat was created jus for ye.

Amy A. Bartol