M. Scott Peck Quotes

Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Sometimes you gotta say, 'Okay' - even if you're not sure you're ready.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

How well we have learned to let go

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.