M. Scott Peck

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

— M. Scott Peck

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

— M. Scott Peck

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons…

— M. Scott Peck

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of…

— M. Scott Peck

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was…

— M. Scott Peck

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

— M. Scott Peck

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

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

— 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

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

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

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do?…

— M. Scott Peck

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some…

— M. Scott Peck

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in…

— M. Scott Peck

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to…

— M. Scott Peck

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give,…

— 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

“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

Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship…

— M. Scott Peck

The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is…

— M. Scott Peck

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to…

— M. Scott Peck

The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,…

— 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

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human…

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

— M. Scott Peck

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

— M. Scott Peck

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

— M. Scott Peck

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

— M. Scott Peck

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

— M. Scott Peck

“Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct.”

— M. Scott Peck

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

— M. Scott Peck