Peter McWilliams Quotes
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.
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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.
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.
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.
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.
Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.
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.
If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
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.
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.
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?
People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
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.
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
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.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
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.
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
