Mature Love Quotes

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

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

Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.

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'.

True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one

I'll be your crying shoulder, I'll be love's suicide, I'll be better when I'm older, I'll be the greatest fan of your life.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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.

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.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

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?

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

I love scripts about relationships, and I love to see puppy love evolving into this mature love and communication.

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.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

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

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.

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.

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.

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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.

I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

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.

My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

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.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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.

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.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

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

I need you because I love you.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.