America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification. — M. Scott Peck America Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Action Copy Share Image
I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God." — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship. — M. Scott Peck Commitment Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do… — M. Scott Peck 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
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision. — M. Scott Peck 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
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
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. — M. Scott Peck 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
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Bias Copy Share Image
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent… — M. Scott Peck Dedication Copy Share Image
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Ability Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes… — M. Scott Peck Adversity Copy Share Image
“If we kill those who are evil, we will become evil ourselves; we will be killers. If we attempt to deal with… — M. Scott Peck Evil Copy Share Image
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Adversity 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 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
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness. — M. Scott Peck Consciousness Copy Share Image
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [...] - all that makes… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. — M. Scott Peck Dedication Copy Share Image
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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