Top 100 Mcwilliams Quotes

#1. Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #6446
#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 ...

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #11186
#3. As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #12773
#4. Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #19220
#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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #42231
#6. Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #43424
#7. Novikov self-consistency principle, which states that any event that would cause a paradox has a zero probability of happening.

John McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #44690
#8. If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #45376
#9. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #50067
#10. Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #97088
#11. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #121389
#12. There is nothing to be done. only accept it ... and hurt.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #122063
#13. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #125741
#14. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #178442
#15. It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #204242
#16. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #211691
#17. Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #225521
#18. To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #226034
#19. Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #236130
#20. For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have ...

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #237013
#21. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #251677
#22. I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #268872
#23. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #275358
#24. If we're not enjoying what we've got ... and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #282811
#25. I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #290300
#26. The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #295364
#27. In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #303074
#28. Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #321565
#29. Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #337908
#30. You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #341551
#31. Turn the page . . . jump in.

R.K. McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #346761
#32. 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 ...

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #351888
#33. I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #356126
#34. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #358093
#35. As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #358294
#36. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #388237
#37. You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #400481
#38. Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #417384
#39. Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #428590
#40. I feel that I am entitled to take medicinal marijuana. In general, I believe that everyone who has a doctor's prescription is entitled to take marijuana. I, however, do not believe that my day in court should be taken from me, and that's essentially what's happening.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #431331
#41. Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #462290
#42. Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love ...

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #467724
#43. The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #472224
#44. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #501450
#45. In life, we have either reasons or results

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #502814
#46. To affirm is to make firm.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #519846
#47. The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #522915
#48. Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #541024
#49. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #558743
#50. 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?

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #565496
#51. Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #578101
#52. Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #597166
#53. By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #605645
#54. You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #618075
#55. This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #618607
#56. If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #620086
#57. And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #623401
#58. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #626713
#59. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #627435
#60. If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #669064
#61. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #688615
#62. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #701534
#63. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #713218
#64. Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #742078
#65. We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal ... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #761023
#66. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #763229
#67. The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends ... The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #835950
#68. If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #837843
#69. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #846494
#70. When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #885047
#71. You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #888016
#72. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #901735
#73. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #908287
#74. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #929119
#75. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #931076
#76. Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #939965
#77. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #962042
#78. You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #964680
#79. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #993782
#80. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #994538
#81. One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1001936
#82. Negative thinking is always expensive
dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically
hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1001999
#83. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1027124
#84. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1040283
#85. Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1048318
#86. The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1054837
#87. That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1063677
#88. What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1091766
#89. The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1095358
#90. This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1108463
#91. Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1162041
#92. The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1172071
#93. 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).

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1176843
#94. To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1182434
#95. Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1195389
#96. 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.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1238176
#97. No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1245481
#98. However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted by Gidon Eshel (Bard College geographer)

James McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1254928
#99. You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1276183
#100. To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Peter McWilliams

Mcwilliams Quotes #1303127

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