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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

M. Scott Peck

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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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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.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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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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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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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.
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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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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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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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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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
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