Top 100 Peter McWilliams Quotes
#1. Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
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#2. Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention ...
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#3. As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
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#4. Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
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#5. The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.
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#6. If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
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#7. Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher
that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
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#8. To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.
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#9. Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.
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#10. The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.
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#11. It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does.
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#12. E are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
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#13. To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.
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#14. Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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#15. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.
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#16. Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.
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#17. If we're not enjoying what we've got ... and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.
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#19. Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
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#21. I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide ... that is beauty. That is love ...
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#22. Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.
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#23. As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
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#24. Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.
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#25. Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.
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#26. Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.
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#28. When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.
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#30. Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
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#31. Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?
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#32. Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
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#33. By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.
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#34. You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.
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#36. The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.
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#37. You are powerful. Sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. You are. You can continue arm wrestling with yourself, or you can use both arms, your whole heart, and all your strength to wrestle with greatness. The choice is yours.
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#38. If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
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#39. Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough fortitude and they probably wouldnt succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.
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#40. To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change.
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#41. Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge
and follow its advice
the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.
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#42. Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful.
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#43. If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?
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#44. We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.
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#45. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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#46. Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.
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#47. All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's Reality. That's happened. No changing the past.
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#48. Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
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#49. Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
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#50. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
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#51. You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
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#52. When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.
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#53. Ear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.
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#54. One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
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#55. Negative thinking is always expensive
dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically
hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
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#56. Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.
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#57. The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts ... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert' ... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
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#58. Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
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#59. The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
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#60. What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
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#61. Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
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#62. The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
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#63. Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz).
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#64. Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
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#65. You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.
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#66. To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
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#68. Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.
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#69. If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
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#70. There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.
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#72. The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
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#73. There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.
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#74. Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.
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#75. Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
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#76. The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.
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#79. The most recent studies, ... both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with.
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#81. People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
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#82. Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such ...
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#83. The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news ... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
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#85. If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.
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#86. Ecause when medical marijuana is fully accepted for what it is, we will see a phenomenon that makes Viagra's phenomenon seem limp.
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#87. It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
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#88. Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ...
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#90. To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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#91. Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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#92. Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.
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#93. Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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#94. Ince depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.
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#95. Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.
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#96. If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.
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#97. If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. If you walk alone for awhile, fine. If you don't like what's going on somewhere, leave. Maintain a portable paradise within yourself.
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#98. In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.
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#99. Our thoughts create our reality
where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
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#100. When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
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