The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Classic Edition)

by M. Scott Peck

What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair.

Benjamin Franklin said, ‘Those things that hurt, instruct.’ It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.

Good discipline requires time.