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Own Quotes by 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 that the distinction…
- The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,…
- We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
- 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…
- I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic…
- Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or…
- Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive…
- Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The…
- 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.
- Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov