Peter McWilliams Quotes

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• If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
• Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear....
• Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.
• 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…
• Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its…
• Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.
• The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger…
• 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…
• 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…
• If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?
• Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
• As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
• Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
• Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
• If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
• Keep your goals away from the trolls.
• 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…
• The willingness to do creates the ability to do.
• 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…
• 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…

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