M. Scott Peck Quotes

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

True love is better than glory.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

True love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit.

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.

Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.