Scott Peck
Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peckwas an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978...
great greatest life transcend truth
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.
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Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.
growing-up years ongoing
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
profound want superstitions
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.
integrity painless
Integrity is never painless.
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
discipline tools problem
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
relationship commitment loving-relationships
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
agony community joy
When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."
growing-up fall successful
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.
leadership mean facts
Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
acts-of-love exception
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
love-you caring self
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 using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.