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M. Scott Peck, Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“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 organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Responsibility
“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Problems, Spirituality, Education
“The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Miracles, Belieivng
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Love, Self-Love, Loving Yourself
“Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live,’ said Seneca two millennia ago, ‘and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Death, Grow, Learning
“As long as one marries, enters a career or has children to satisfy one’s parents or the expectations of anyone else, including society as a whole, the commitment by its very nature will be a shallow one.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Love, Commitment
“Anyone who genuinely loves knows the pleasure of loving. When we genuinely love we do so because we want to love.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Love
“There is nothing beyond the limits of our vision. If we decide to study something, we can always find the methodology with which to do it.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Learning
“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,, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Loving Yourself, Time, Value Yourself, Wisdom
“Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Love, Falling in love again
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. ”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: first lines of books, Life, The Road Less Traveled
“If we know exactly where we’re going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we’ll see along the way, we won’t learn anything.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Growth, Learning
“Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Learning, Spirituality, Loneliness
“If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and you cannot be a person worthy of love when your primary goal in life is to passively be loved.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Love, Self-Love
“The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Honesty, Truth
“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Suffering, Growing Up
“It is not so much that they fear the risk of committing themselves as that they basically do not understand what commitment is all about. Because their parents failed to commit themselves to them as children in any meaningful way, the grew up without experience of commitment. Commitment for them represents an abstract beyond their ken, a phenomenon of which they cannot fully conceive. ”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Commitment, Childhood, Psychology
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