Peter McWilliams Quotes - Page 3

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• This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.

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  Healing, Loss, Ideas

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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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• Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Struggle

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• Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

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  Laughter, Adversity, Joy

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

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  Media, Paper, Faults

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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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• 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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• 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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• Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

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  Love You, Achievement, Joy

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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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• The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

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  Ambition, Comfort, Excuse

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, 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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• 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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• We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.

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  Inspirational, Next, Want

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, 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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• All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.

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  Reality, Thinking, Past

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

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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, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

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  Yoga, Taken, Thinking

  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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• If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

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  Anger, Acceptance, Successful

  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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• If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

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  Inspirational, Firsts, Kindergarten

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

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• 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 both arms, your whole heart, and all your strength to wrestle with greatness. The choice is yours.

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  Sorry, Powerful, Hate

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

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• I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

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  Glasses, Optimism, Worry

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

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• Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

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  Men, Thinking, Luxury

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

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• I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

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  Fear, Nervous, Breakdown

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• Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

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  Running, Fear, Over You

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• It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

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  People, Alive, Contagious

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