M Scott Peck Famous Quotes
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her."
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
"Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others."
"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M Scott Peck Quotations
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
Herbert W Boyer
"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)"
George Will
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.
US Supreme Court
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
David Frost
"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."
Benjamin Disraeli
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift