M. Scott Peck Quotes
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. 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 good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
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Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
