338 Quotes by M. Scott Peck

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 is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

Life is difficult.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

In my personal struggle for maturity, I am gradually becoming aware of new insights, which tend as if of the themselves to want to slip away from me.

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.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.