M. Scott Peck - Grow Quotes

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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

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When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

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As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

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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.

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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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As human beings grow in discipline and love and life experience, their understanding of the world their place in it naturally grows apace…. This understanding is our religion.

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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

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