12 Quotes by Scott Peck

For when children know they are valued....then they feel valuable.

... Truth or reality is avoided when is painful. We can revise our maps only when we have the discipline to overcome pain...

...Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs...

...What does a life of total dedication to the truth mean? It means first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it, but simultaneously examine the examiner...

Une vie de sagesse est une vie de contemplation et d'actions entremêlées.

S'ils avaient un peu plus d'amour-propre, ils ne se laisseraient pas aller à se contenter (même avec passion) d'un objectif aussi superficiel et d'un avenir aussi étroit.

....c'était moi qui souffrais de troubles du caractère, pas lui. J'étais responsable de mon temps. C'était à moi seul de décider comment je voulais l'utiliser et l'organiser.

Whenever we think of ourselves doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most. Whatever we do for someone else we do because it fulfills a need we have.

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.