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 … - M. Scott Peck

Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.

Another characteristic of human nature — perhaps the one that makes us most human — is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and hence transform our own nature.

Desire is not necessarily translated into action. Will is desire of sufficient intensity that it is translated into action. The difference between the two is equal to the difference between saying “I would like to go swimming tonight” and “I will go swimming tonight.” Everyone in our culture desires to some extent to be loving, yet many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is not itself love. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action.