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With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
— Richard Peck
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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
— Richard Peck
It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.
— M. Scott Peck
We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
— M. Scott Peck
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
— Pat Conroy
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
— M. Scott Peck
Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
— M. Scott Peck
Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.
— George R R Martin
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
— M. Scott Peck
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
— M. Scott Peck
I stayed there until the fire died. So it would not have to die alone.
— Robert Newton Peck
It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.
— Gregory Peck
Tuff time don't last, tuff people do!
— George Peck
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
— Richard Peck
Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.
— Gregory Peck
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
— Robert Newton Peck
There would be no work on this day. A day no pigs would die.
— Robert Newton Peck
The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher.
— Richard Peck
I thank them for the same service.
— M. Scott Peck
As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
— Austin Peck
Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.
— Austin Peck
A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action
— M. Scott Peck
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
— Richard Peck
The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.
— M. Scott Peck
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
— M. Scott Peck
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
— M. Scott Peck
I read because one life isn't enough.
— Richard Peck
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
— M. Scott Peck
The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.
— Austin Peck
Yet even more important than role modeling is love.
— M. Scott Peck
This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understandhow war promises a boy it can make a man out of him. — Richard Peck
Conformity is the enemy of friendship
— Richard Peck
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
— M. Scott Peck
The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.
— M. Scott Peck
Oh, Papa. My heart's broke.
— Robert Newton Peck
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
— M. Scott Peck
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.
— Tim DeKay
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
— M. Scott Peck
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
— M. Scott Peck
I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.
— Josh Peck
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
— M. Scott Peck
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
— M. Scott Peck
no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.
— M. Scott Peck
Teach us to number our days aright.
— M. Scott Peck
Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.
— M. Scott Peck
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
— Dale Peck
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
— M. Scott Peck
I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull.
— E. Lockhart
And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.
— M. Scott Peck
In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
— M. Scott Peck
If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
— M. Scott Peck
There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
— M. Scott Peck
We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer
— Richard Peck
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
— William Shakespeare
When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.
— Kayt C. Peck
Grandma, how old is she?""Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. — Richard Peck
Those things that hurt, instruct.
— M. Scott Peck
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
— Gregory Peck
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
— M. Scott Peck
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
— M. Scott Peck
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
— M. Scott Peck
I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.
— Gregory Peck
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
— Dale Peck
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
— M. Scott Peck
Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
— Rip Taylor
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
— M. Scott Peck
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
— M. Scott Peck
I'm just a geeky, goofy person.
— Austin Peck
The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
— M. Scott Peck
But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
— Richard Peck
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
— Austin Peck
You must have something in order to give it up.
— M. Scott Peck
Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.
— M. Scott Peck
One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.
— L.M. Montgomery
My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.
— M. Scott Peck
Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.
— Robert Newton Peck
