Peter McWilliams Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Fighting, Knowing Who You Are

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

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  Dream, Hard Times, Challenges

  Peter McWilliams (1994). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Prelude Press

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• Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

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  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Our Thoughts

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• It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

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  Tattoo, Marriage, I Hate You

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• You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

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  Luxury, Negative, Enemy Within

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

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  Order, People, Achievement

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Keep your goals away from the trolls.

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  Inspirational, Goal, Troll

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

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  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• 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 walk alone for awhile, fine. If you don't like what's going on somewhere, leave. Maintain a portable paradise within yourself.

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  Fighting, Paradise, Want

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• If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

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  Getting What You Want, Involved, Ifs

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

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  Pain, Health, Necessary Change

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?

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  Smart, People, Upset

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• When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains.

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  Powerful, Moving, Communication

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

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  Inspirational, Risk, Irony

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

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  Pain, Fall, Health

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

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  May, Want, Taste

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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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] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

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  Marijuana, Government, People

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• Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Doors

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• When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

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  Inspirational, Knowing, Teach

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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

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  Life, Creativity, Interesting

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• I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

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  Happiness, Success, Order

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

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  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

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  Anger, Guilt, Resentment

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

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  Dream, Real, Lying

  Peter McWilliams (1994). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Prelude Press

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• Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

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  Appreciation, Overcoming, Helping

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