Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.
M. Scott PeckGod creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.
M. Scott PeckI believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
M. Scott PeckBy far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
M. Scott PeckLife 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.
M. Scott PeckThe time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
M. Scott Peck