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I define love thus: The will t...

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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The principal form that the wo...

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Morgan Scott Peck 178 quotes

Genuine love is volitional rat...

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Morgan Scott Peck 178 quotes

The will to grow is, in essenc...

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Morgan Scott Peck 178 quotes

The best decision-makers are t...

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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We know a great deal more abou...

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

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Genuine love not only respects...

Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

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To be free people we must assu...

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but I doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is ot truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I

Morgan Scott Peck 178 quotes

Discipline is the basic set of...

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Morgan Scott Peck 178 quotes

There is no act of love that i...

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

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I believe it would be consider...

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

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Problems call forth our courag...

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

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To heal your body, you must fi...

To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit.

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Integrity is never painless....

Integrity is never painless.

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I make no distinction between ...

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

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Examination of the world witho...

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

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Listening well is an exercise ...

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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If we want to be heard we must...

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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Do what you feel called to do,...

Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

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While I generally find that gr...

While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....