{"quotes":[{"text":"The problem of society today: An absolute lifestyle of entitlement. People gauge everything by 'feeling', meaning whatever they feel like doing or whatever they don't feel like doing. Passion is valued over dedication. Instant gratification is prized over true fulfillment. They don't know that more than feeling; intuition is the better key. They don't know that more than passion; fulfillment and dedication are the better keys. True passion will produce dedication and ultimately— fulfillment. If not, then it should not be called passion; it should just be called a lack of self control/ immaturity.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["dedication","feeling","feeling-of-entitlement","fulfillment","immaturity","intuition","lifestyle-of-entitlement","passion","problems-with-society","society","wisdom"],"id":14683,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"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.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["art","immaturity","love","maturity","need"],"id":16602,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["adolescent-behavior","babysitting","childish","childish-behavior","children","humor","immature","immaturity","kids","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":17399,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.","author":"Colleen Truscott Fry","tags":["dysfunction","dysfunctional","heartbreak","immaturity","karma","misery","revenge","self-pity"],"id":33077,"author_id":"Colleen+Truscott+Fry"},{"text":"The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","amateur","antitheistic","apologetics","application","argumentation","atheism","bible","counter-argument","criticism","deceit","development","dialect","discernment","fallacies","false-preaching","false-prophet","false-teaching","falsehood","figurative","foolish","immaturity","improvement","instrument","judgment","knowledge","language","learning","lies","lingo","logic","logical-fallacies","mastering","mastering-oneself","mastering-the-mind","maturity","metaphor","mind","music","philosophy","practice","preacher","professional","prophet","religion","scripture","simile","studying","teacher","theism","theology","truth","wisdom"],"id":45066,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-influence","bad-teaching","bad-upbringing","bitter","broken-individuals","careless","close-minded","cruelty","equality","evil-acts","eye-for-an-eye","false-justice","game-players","games","hateful","heartless","immaturity","insecure","jealous","lack-of-empathy","lack-of-standards","lost-people","manipulative","not-caring","old-testament","role-models","ruthless","teachers","vengeful","well-intended"],"id":47426,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and 'but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!' isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960's every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it and it passed, just like I think that this generation's 'cell phones are necessary for socialization' fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterwards? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["21st-century","acid","cell-phone","digital","drugs","excuse","fad","generation","hippie","immaturity","lazy","peace","sheep","technology","text","tripping"],"id":49504,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["age","amish","ancestors","chronological-snobbery","conservative","culture","discipline","elderly","eyes","gift","immaturity","intelligence","knowledge","liberal","maturity","mennonites","old","old-age","past","respect","tarnished","tradition","value","wealth","wisdom","youth"],"id":55830,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.","author":"Ricardo Derose","tags":["immaturity","maturity"],"id":56608,"author_id":"Ricardo+Derose"},{"text":"Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.","author":"Fred Gipson","tags":["battles","immaturity","maturity","politics","war"],"id":58309,"author_id":"Fred+Gipson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}