Quotes by M. Scott Peck

About M. Scott Peck:

Morgan Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.
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The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

M. Scott Peck

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

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

M. Scott Peck

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day event...

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Love always requires courage and involves risk.

M. Scott Peck

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

M. Scott Peck

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

M. Scott Peck

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

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Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the o...

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The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be ...

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Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

M. Scott Peck

The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among five billion others - all feeling themselves...

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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

M. Scott Peck

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

M. Scott Peck

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

M. Scott Peck

Author Bio

  • NameM. Scott Peck
  • DescriptionAmerican psychiatrist
  • BornMay 23, 1936
  • DiedSeptember 25, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychiatrist; Psychotherapist; Writer