Love Quotes by M. Scott Peck

Ultimately love is everything.

— M. Scott Peck

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

— M. Scott Peck

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

— M. Scott Peck

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

— M. Scott Peck

“Laziness is love's opposite.”

— M. Scott Peck

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

— M. Scott Peck

“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.”

— M. Scott Peck

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

— M. Scott Peck

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

— M. Scott Peck

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

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

— M. Scott Peck

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

— M. Scott Peck

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

— M. Scott Peck

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent…

— M. Scott Peck

“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

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each…

— M. Scott Peck

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is…

— M. Scott Peck

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are…

— M. Scott Peck

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

“I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine…

— M. Scott Peck

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force…

— M. Scott Peck

“Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It…

— M. Scott Peck

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone…

— M. Scott Peck

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in…

— M. Scott Peck

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…

— M. Scott Peck

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this…

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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person…

— M. Scott Peck

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

“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

“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

“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

“If falling in love is not love, then what is it other than a temporary and partial collapse of ego boundaries? I…

— M. Scott Peck

“The second most common misconception about love is the idea that dependency is love...Its effect is seen most dramatically in an individual…

— M. Scott Peck

“It is lonely behind these boundaries. Some people-particularly those whom psychiatrists call schizoid-because of unpleasant, traumatizing experiences in childhood, perceive the world…

— M. Scott Peck

“Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that "falling in love" is love or at…

— M. Scott Peck

“I feel compelled to make another 'nonapology.' Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation…

— M. Scott Peck

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

— M. Scott Peck

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

— M. Scott Peck