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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

M. Scott Peck

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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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Problems
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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
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Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
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