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Self Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like…
- The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are…
- Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid…
- The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
- Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
- The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
- Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
- 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…
- Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
- 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.
- Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. Falling in love is not.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster