We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength. — M. Scott Peck Nurture Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. — M. Scott Peck Ambition Copy Share Image
All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach. — M. Scott Peck Education Copy Share Image
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. — M. Scott Peck Growing up Copy Share Image
Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person. — M. Scott Peck Jesus Copy Share Image
The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our… — M. Scott Peck Attention Copy Share Image
When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary. — M. Scott Peck Care Copy Share Image
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. — M. Scott Peck Self esteem Copy Share Image
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck Community Copy Share Image
“The truth is that I want It, and the price I must pay is to ask the question again and again and… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck Define love Copy Share Image
“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.” — M. Scott Peck Action Copy Share Image
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the… — M. Scott Peck Courage Copy Share Image
Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we… — M. Scott Peck Choice Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented… — M. Scott Peck Conscience Copy Share Image
Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the… — M. Scott Peck Child Copy Share Image
We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will… — M. Scott Peck Confusion Copy Share Image
“Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to… — M. Scott Peck Definition of love Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Specifically, one whose life is ruled and dictated by dependency needs suffers from a psychiatric disorder to which we ascribe the diagnostic… — M. Scott Peck Dependency Copy Share Image
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“When I say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to corporeal murder. Evil is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — M. Scott Peck Discipline Copy Share Image
“While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths (and will explore several… — M. Scott Peck Love Copy Share Image
“Dependency may appear to be love because it is a force that causes people to fiercely attach themselves to one another. But… — M. Scott Peck Dependency Copy Share Image
The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they… — M. Scott Peck Child Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.” — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Action Copy Share Image
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship. — M. Scott Peck Commitment Copy Share Image
I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God." — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image