Peter McWilliams Quotes
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.
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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.
..we 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.
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.
Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.
By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
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.
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.
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
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.
Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
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.
Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.
You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.
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.
If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
