Quotations

"Prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm."

— Molly Peacock,  American-Canadian poet, born June 30, 1947

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

— Norman Vincent Peale, American minister, born 1898

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

— Norman Vincent Peale, American minister, born 1898

"When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy."

— Norman Vincent Peale, American minister, born 1898

"Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"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, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"Since narcissists deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"God 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 Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936

"We do not have to love. We choose to love."

— M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist, born 1936