The Road Less Traveled Quotes by M. Scott Peck

“All that I love now, Friedrich, is the thought that I have fulfilled my duty toward others.” “Duty? Can duty take precedence over your love for yourself and for your own quest for unconditional freedom? If you have not attained yourself, then ‘duty’ is merely a euphemism for using others for your own enlargement.”

Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled, says: "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.”

“What you describe is parasitism, not love. When you require another individual for your survival, you are a parasite on that individual. There is no choice, no freedom involved in your relationship. It is a matter of necessity rather than love. Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of livi

"The need for protective love has a certain validity for the child, but if this attitude is maintained into adulthood, it is no longer valid. Since he does not cultivate the faculty of self-responsibility and independence, his need for love and his dependency can actually make the person helpless. He uses his entire psychic strength in order t