M. Scott Peck Quotes

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

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.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

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.".

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.

[If it is true, as Baudelaire suggests, that] the Devil's cleverest wile is to convince us that he does not exist, ... I now know that Satan is real. I have met it.

As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.