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    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, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
    tags: self-esteem, time
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    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
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    M. Scott Peck
    “Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.”
    ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
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    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
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    M. Scott Peck
    “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. ”
    ― Scott Peck
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    M. Scott Peck
    “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, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
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    M. Scott Peck
    “How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.”
    ― M. Scott Peck
    tags: inspirational
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    M. Scott Peck
    “It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ”
    ― M. Scott Peck
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    M. Scott Peck
    “Consciousness and Healing

    To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”
    ― Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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    M. Scott Peck
    “Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
    ― M. Scott Peck
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    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
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    M. Scott Peck
    “Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.”
    ― M. Scott Peck
    tags: complexity, inspirational
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    M. Scott Peck
    “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, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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    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
    tags: from-the-road-less-traveled
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    M. Scott Peck
    “Life is difficult.”
    ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
    tags: excitement, life, living, mentation, purpose, purposeful, real, reality, reality-check, thinking, thought, truism, truth, wonder, wonderment
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    M. Scott Peck
    “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, The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
    tags: communication, reconciliation
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    M. Scott Peck
    “There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.”
    ― M. Scott Peck
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    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, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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    M. Scott Peck
    “Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.”
    ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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    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
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    M. Scott Peck
    “The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual.... For it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”
    ― M. Scott Peck
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  • #22
    Dr. Seuss
    “And will you succeed?
    Yes! You will, indeed!
    (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

    KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

    So...
    be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
    or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
    you're off to Great Places!
    Today is your day!
    Your mountain is waiting.
    So...get on your way!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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  • #28
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #29
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #30
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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