M. Scott Peck Quotes

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

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.

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience - to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

Life is difficult.

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.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

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.