Mature Quotes

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

Love, Friendship, Fire

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

Love, Immature, Says

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Young, Solitude, Painful

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
Eminem

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

Good, Hope, Humble

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature, Poets, Steal

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

Music, Die, Until

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing

Society, Matter, Moral

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt

Society, Wise, Enough

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

Powerful, Young, Belief

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

Time, Lost, Happens

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant

Beauty, Experience, Wisdom

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian Tracy

Person, Hallmark

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
Karen Armstrong

Change, Time, God

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Alice Walker

Children, Become, Often

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

Change, Today, Same

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu

Age, Corruption, Young

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Immature, Artists, Steal

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann

Manners, Morals, Easily

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
Deepak Chopra

Creative, Less, Workers

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak Chopra

Health, Wisdom, Live

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

Bonds, Matrimony, Slowly

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
Jennifer Aniston

Age, Parenting, Parents

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

Time, Great, Patience

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Men, Fun, American

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

Change, Exist, Oneself

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

History, Character, Nation

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Become, Start, Everyday

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

Matter, Child, Remains

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

Experience, Words, Cannot

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