Peter McWilliams Quotes

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• One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
• You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
• Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
• All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
• First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or…
• Meditation creates more time than it takes.
• Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
• Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don’t have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.
• 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…
• What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
• Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no…
• 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…
• People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
• Emotion is energy in motion.
• Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.
• And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.
• If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
• In life, we have either reasons or results
• The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
• If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. If you…

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