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There can be no vulnerability without risk, there can be no community without vulnerability, there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about risk, vulnerability, peace, life

Ultimately love is everything.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about love

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about value, contentment, time

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about opinion, people

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about life, problems

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Quote by M. Scott Peck

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about power

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about time, contentment

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Quote by Orson Scott about word

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Quote by Orson Scott about death, contentment

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that...

Quote by Orson Scott about salary, teaching, writing, change, work, love, life

Every book was the best I could do at the time I wrote it, and every book was a story I still care about and believe in.

Quote by Orson Scott about love, faith, time

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Quote by Orson Scott about old, god

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Quote by Orson Scott about civilization

I buy way too many books.

Quote by Orson Scott about commerce, books

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Quote by Orson Scott about nation, faith, people

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I...

Quote by Orson Scott about career, writing, money, faith, being

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Quote by Orson Scott about hope

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Quote by Orson Scott about hope, children, good, good luck