The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my… — Peter McWilliams Depression Copy Share Image
To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so… — Peter McWilliams Assets Copy Share Image
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy. — Peter McWilliams Adversity Copy Share Image
Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know… — Peter McWilliams Action Copy Share Image
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have… — Peter McWilliams Believe Copy Share Image
There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing… — Peter McWilliams Answers Copy Share Image
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the… — Peter McWilliams Change things Copy Share Image
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade. — Peter McWilliams Firsts Copy Share Image
Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to… — Peter McWilliams Aspire Copy Share Image
Heroes became heroes flaws and all gives us hope. "You mean I don't have to be perfect to fulfill my Dream, to… — Peter McWilliams Courage Copy Share Image
Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy… — Peter McWilliams Bigs Copy Share Image
Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account… — Peter McWilliams Accounts Copy Share Image
Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to… — Peter McWilliams Antidote Copy Share Image
The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to… — Peter McWilliams Able Copy Share Image
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the… — Peter McWilliams Fear Copy Share Image
If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take… — Peter McWilliams Bits Copy Share Image
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. — Peter McWilliams Action Copy Share Image
The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with. — Peter McWilliams Born Copy Share Image
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? — Peter McWilliams Failure Copy Share Image
Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. — Peter McWilliams Finest Copy Share Image
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… — Peter McWilliams Burden Copy Share Image
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is… — Peter McWilliams Commodity Copy Share Image
“Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it… — Peter McWilliams Expensive Copy Share Image
Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all… — Peter McWilliams Events Copy Share Image
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is… — Peter McWilliams Accounts Copy Share Image
Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If… — Peter McWilliams Comedy Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and… — Peter McWilliams Depression Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting… — Peter McWilliams Creativity Copy Share Image
The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception. — Peter McWilliams Born Copy Share Image
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through. — Peter McWilliams Demonstrating Copy Share Image
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be. — Peter McWilliams Acceptance Copy Share Image
We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold… — Peter McWilliams Inspirational Copy Share Image
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 Asking Copy Share Image
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… — Peter McWilliams Hogwash Copy Share Image
..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In… — Peter McWilliams Anxiety Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to… — Peter McWilliams Dumb Copy Share Image
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -… — Peter McWilliams Anger Copy Share Image
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give… — Peter McWilliams Flow Copy Share Image
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 Accepting Copy Share Image
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for… — Peter McWilliams Chairs Copy Share Image
