Define love Quote by M. Scott Peck

“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

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The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

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

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