“To the immature, other people are not real.”
“Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”
“Making bad decisions is a part of life. Blaming others for your bad decisions is immature.”
“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”
“That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.”
“The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?”