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Growth Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- 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…
- Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction…
- The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
- Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to…
- The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
- Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal…
- Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
- Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is…
- Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to…
- 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…
- I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
- When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
- Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
- Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
- Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love…
- It can take a lifetime for many people to come to terms with the freedom they truly have to think for themselves. But this path…
- Mysterious though it is, the choice to actually learn as an adult and devote one's will consciously to growth and learning is the most crucial…
More Growth Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. — Richard Bach
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's… — Erykah Badu
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin