Quotes About Maturity

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

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

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

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

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.