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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -- Erich Fromm
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -- T. S. Eliot
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered. -- Deepak Chopra
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. -- Peter De Vries
My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be. -- Eminem
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. -- Douglas Engelbart
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. -- Paul Simon
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit. -- John C. Maxwell
Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm
Immature love says:I love you because i need you. Mature love says: I need you because i love you. -- Erich Fromm
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
Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude. -- Richard Rohr
Mature love is loving, not being loved. -- Irvin D. Yalom
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds. -- Boyd K. Packer
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance -- Earle Birney
Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge. -- Anais Nin
Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict. -- Fethullah Gulen
Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do. -- Roy H. Williams
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two. -- Nigidius Figulus
Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations. -- Amy Dickinson
Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright. -- Thomas Horn
Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else. -- Richard Moss
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen. -- Esther Williams
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them? -- Diana Peterfreund
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens. -- Deb Caletti
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals. -- Norman Vincent Peale
No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light. -- Rumi
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Some age, others mature. -- Sean Connery
I'm a more mature actress now. -- Eliza Dushku
I have considered myself a mature actor. -- DeForest Kelley
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. -- Horace Mann
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. -- Brian Tracy
When you have a kid, you have to be more mature. -- Sofia Vergara
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. -- Daniel Goleman
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes -- Fritz Kunkel
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. -- Orson Welles
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. -- Albert Einstein
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. -- W. Somerset Maugham
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. -- Barbra Streisand
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless -- Bram Cohen
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. -- Bram Cohen
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. -- Leon Jouhaux
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. -- J. D. Salinger
If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature. -- Ariel Pink
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. -- Jill Shalvis
Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions. -- Ray Lewis
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. -- Ricky Williams
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. -- Louis Farrakhan
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience. -- Elisha Cuthbert
My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me. -- Gloria Estefan
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on. -- Nancy Gibbs
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -- Anais Nin
I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. -- Taylor Swift
If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid. -- Bobby Knight
Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.' -- Jada Pinkett Smith
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness. -- Byron Katie
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature. -- Kent Beck
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play. -- Dizzy Gillespie
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. -- Wilfrid Sheed
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands. -- Henry Cloud
I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment. -- Zig Ziglar
I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really. -- Edmund Hillary
When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity. -- Anthony Kennedy
Some age. Others mature. -- Sean Connery
You gotta mature, you know. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
People always grow and mature. -- Jesse Jackson
I'm too mature to be angry. -- Jesse Jackson
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. -- Winston Churchill
I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being. -- Frederick Winslow Taylor
Precocious talents mature slowly if at all. -- Gore Vidal
compromise is the work of mature people. -- Rita Mae Brown
The mature mind seeks to follow through. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
Men don't mature. Marry a younger one. -- Rita Rudner
We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term. -- John C. Maxwell
The best wines take the longest to mature. -- John Fowles
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes, -- T. S. Eliot
In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. -- Brandon Stanton
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. -- Lionel Trilling
There is no dunce like a mature dunce. -- George Santayana
It's great playing a mature character. It adds something. -- Phyllis Logan
I think audiences can deal with these mature themes. -- Harvey Weinstein
I like to think Im a very mature person. -- Joel Courtney
I made a more mature approach to industrial music. -- David Bowie
Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller. -- Christina Dodd
I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember? -- Sharon Sala
I feel more mature than most people my age. -- Leighton Meester
The more mature we are, the more receptive we are. -- Marianne Williamson
The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. -- Laozi
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. -- Ad Reinhardt
It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. -- Graham Greene
(The mature person) pours himself out in service to others. -- Laozi
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. -- Sophia Loren
With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint. -- Zendaya
A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership. -- John C. Maxwell
The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality. -- Rafael Nadal
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I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow. -- Sylvia Plath
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with. -- Ralph Waite
I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better. -- Yani Tseng
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. -- Alain de Botton
Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is. -- Taylor Momsen
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Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask. -- Sean O Faolain
I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more. -- David Archuleta
People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot. -- Lee Westwood
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. -- Gordon Allport
A spiritually mature person is capable of admitting his mistakes and sins. -- Sunday Adelaja
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. -- Salman Rushdie
I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up. -- Sheryl Crow
You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself. -- Laura Ramirez

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