"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

Source : M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

M. Scott Peck

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“Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.”
“You don't stay the hottest guy forever unless you're, um, Dionysus.”
“People like to pigeonhole you.”

Source : Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.
“A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.”
“There's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool.”
“Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.”

Source : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (Part 5, XXII), 1886.
“Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.”
“When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.”

Source : "Matt Lauer: ‘Today’ Is ‘Not Where I Want It To Be ... I Want To Make It Better’" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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