M. Scott Peck Quotes

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Everyone is scared of getting hurt, but having been there and taken the chance on someone and fallen in love - it's worth getting past all of your heart's reservations, regardless of how things transpire.

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

would you dare to love me?

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

We shouldn't be scared of love.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.