“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”
“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.”
“... for what is love, if not the willingness to repeat oneself?”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“Henri Bergson said: "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (p. 165)”
“I was surprised at her gentleness, her willingness to give in.”