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M Scott Peck Inspirational Quotes (88)

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If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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