M. Scott Peck Quotes

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• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

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  Spiritual, Encouragement, Truth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

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  Motivational, Reality, Emotional

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• It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

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  Pain, Adversity, Cutting

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

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  Thinking, Hands, Evil

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• Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

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• Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

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  Pain, Compassion, Being There

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

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  Reality, Dedication, Cost

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

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  Change, Spiritual, Attitude

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

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  Giving, Listening, Important

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• The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

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  Action, Contemplation

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

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  Spiritual, Growth, Life Is

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

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  Wall, Communication, Purpose

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

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  Healing, Keys, Self

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

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  Profound, Prejudice, Want

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• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

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  Inspiring, Courage, Fear

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

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  Commitment, Community, Together

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is never painless.

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  Integrity, Painless

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

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  Journey, Self, Answers

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• We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

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  Source, Nurture

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• Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

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  Acceptance, Love Is, Listening To Others

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House

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• We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

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  Inspirational, Confused, Dark

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

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  Love You, Caring, Self

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• The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

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  Essence, People, Growing

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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