M. Scott Peck Quotes

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.

It's just funny because I think a long time back I was not a fan favorite at all, and now people have followed my journey, have seen the struggle and the perseverance I've had, and they can relate to that.

With loss comes growth.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.