Mature Love Quotes

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

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

  Lope de Vega

  Love, Harmony, Short Love

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

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• 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.

  Josh McDowell

  Love, Giving, Development

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Heart

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Commitment, Love Is, Celebration

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

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Passion, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Love, Flower, Hands

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

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Mature love is loving, not being loved.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Love Is, Mature, Being Loved

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding, Soulmate

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• 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

  Goodbye, Love You, Mean

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• 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

  Heart, Love Is, Roots

  Alexander Lowen (1995). “Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life”, p.112, Penguin

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Heart, Hands

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.37, New World Library

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

  Elvis Presley

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

  Song: Can't Help Falling in Love

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• 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

  Love, Maturity, Immature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.377, A&C Black

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

  Israel Zangwill

  True Love, Funny Relationship, Love Is

  Israel Zangwill (1925). “Works”

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• 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.

  Edwin McCain

  Love, Suicide, Fans

  Song: I'LL BE Album 'Misguided Roses'

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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