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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.

M. Scott Peck

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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
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New York City
New York
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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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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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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
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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.
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Integrity is never painless.
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I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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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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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the making of action in spite of fear.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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