M. Scott Peck Quotes

Life is difficult.

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

You must have something in order to give it up.

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.