"Eventually, the mature person has come to the point where he is his own mother and his own father. He has, as it were, a motherly and fatherly conscience. Motherly conscience says: "There is no misdeed, no crime which could deprive you of my love, of my wish for your life and happiness." Fatherly conscience says: "You did wrong, you cannot avoid accepting certain consequences of your wrongdoing and most of all you must change your ways if I am going to like you." The mature person has become free from the outside mother and father figures, and has built them up inside."
Erich Fromm
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