Quotes on Mature Love

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

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

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

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.

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.