Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by M. Scott Peck (American Psychiatrist)

Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978. Peck was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth and David Warner Peck, an attorney and judge. Peck was raised a Protestant. His parents sent him to the prestigious boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, when he was 13. In his book, The Road Less Traveled, he confides the story of his brief stay at Exeter, and admits that it was a most miserable time. Finally, at age 15, during the spring holiday of his third year, he came home and refused to return to the school, whereupon his parents sought psychiatric help for him and he was diagnosed with depression and recommended for a month’s stay in a psychiatric hospital. He graduated from Friends Seminary in 1954, after which he received a BA from Harvard in 1958, and an MD degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1963. He served in administrative posts in the government during his career as a psychiatrist. He also served in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. His Army assignments included stints as chief of psychology at the Army Medical Center in Okinawa, Japan, and assistant chief of psychiatry and neurology in the office of the surgeon general in Washington, D.C. He was the Medical Director of the New Milford Hospital Mental Health Clinic and a psychiatrist in private practice.

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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Discipline

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Responsibility

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.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Problems

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.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Acceptance

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Cooperation, Sharing, Help

We cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Simple Living, Simplicity, Courage

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Growth

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
M. 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
Topics: Living

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Learning, Spirituality, Awareness

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Living

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Community

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Wisdom

Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Spirituality

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
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
Topics: Difficulty

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems … create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties

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.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Attitude, Journeys, Difficulty, Unhappiness

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don’t even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
M. Scott Peck
Topics: Discipline

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