"There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately,……" — Peter McWilliams
"There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering."
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130 Quotes by Peter McWilliams
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Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,…
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two…
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Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love....
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Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for]…
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Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a…
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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would…
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To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in…
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
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