“The feeling of being valuable—‘I am a valuable person’—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to y…”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Dependency may appear to be love because it is a force that causes people to fiercely attach themselves to one another. But in actuality it is not love; it is a form of anti-love. It seeks to receive rather than to give. It nourishes infantilism rather than growth. It works to trap and constrict rat…”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and you cannot be a person worthy of love when your primary goal in life is to passively be loved.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up–that growing is an ever ongoing process.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“If we know exactly where we’re going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we’ll see along the way, we won’t learn anything.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“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,, amazon.com
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where–’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. ‘–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation. ‘Oh, you…”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.”— Hillary Clinton, hillaryclinton.com
“We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.”— Hillary Clinton, amazon.com
“I choose my cards, I choose them. I play them to the best of my ability. Move on to the next hand.”— Hillary Clinton, nytimes.com
“If watching is all you're gonna do then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya.”— Laverne, amazon.com