“Mature love is loving, not being loved.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”
“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
“So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.”