Peter McWilliams Quotes

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• If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

  Peter McWilliams

  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.

  Peter McWilliams

  Dream, Hard Times, Challenges

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

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Tattoo, Marriage, I Hate You

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

  Peter McWilliams

  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 physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.

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  Fighting, Paradise, Want

  "Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school - but didn't".

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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.

  Peter McWilliams

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

  Peter McWilliams

  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.

  Peter McWilliams

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

  Peter McWilliams

  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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

  Peter McWilliams

  Giving, Ease, Way

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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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• 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 not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

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  Important Relationships, People, Firsts

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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?

  Peter McWilliams

  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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• 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.

  Peter McWilliams

  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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