Morgan Scott Peck citáty

„Pouze díky problémům rosteme mentálně a duchovně.“

—  Morgan Scott Peck

„Život přináší jeden problém za druhým. Chceme nad nimi bědovat nebo je chceme řešit?“

—  Morgan Scott Peck

„Musíme být ochotni selhat, abychom ocenili pravdu, že často „Život není problém, který je třeba vyřešit, ale tajemství, které je třeba žít."“

—  Morgan Scott Peck

„Dovoleným ulehčením je například to, když při přípravě na zkoušku nastudujeme stručný výtah z knihy, místo toho, abychom ji četli celou. Pokud je ten výtah dobře napsaný a obsahuje potřebná fakta, můžeme získat potřebné vědomosti způsobem, který nám ušetří spoustu času a úsilí. Opisování při zkoušce je ale nedovoleným ulehčením. Může sice ušetřit čas, ale získaná hodnost o svém nositeli podává klamavý a falešný obraz.“

—  Morgan Scott Peck

„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."“

—  M. Scott Peck

„Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.“

—  M. Scott Peck

Zdroj: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

„Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.“

—  M. Scott Peck

Zdroj: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

„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.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.“

—  M. Scott Peck

Zdroj: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

„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.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.“

—  M. Scott Peck

„I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.“

—  M. Scott Peck

Zdroj: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

„When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.“

—  M. Scott Peck

Zdroj: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

„The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.“

—  M. Scott Peck

Zdroj: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace