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Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.