Peter McWilliams Quotes - Page 5

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• In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Work, Learning

  "Va-Va-Voodoo! : Find Love, Make Love & Keep Love". Book by Kathleen Charlotte, Ross Heaven (p. 33), 2007.

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• You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

  Peter McWilliams

  Experts, Hopeless, Media Bias

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• We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

  Peter McWilliams

  Live Life, Right Now

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

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• Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences.

  Peter McWilliams

  Sex, Mean, Successful

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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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.

  Peter McWilliams

  Running, Fear, Over You

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• Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

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  Inspirational, Want, Creation

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

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• Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

  Peter McWilliams

  Revenge, Hands, Needs

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

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  Laughter, Get Well, Essentials

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• ..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Character, Trying

  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 am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Sick, People

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• For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.

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  People, Choices, Risk

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

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• You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

  Peter McWilliams

  Government, Individual Morality, Toilet Seat

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• For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

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  Inspirational, Moving, Writing

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• Heroes became heroes flaws and all gives us hope. "You mean I don't have to be perfect to fulfill my Dream, to make a contribution?" Hardly. It takes commitment, courage, and passion to live a dream and make a contribution. Heroes had these qualities along with their flaws.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Dream, Hero

  "Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts".

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• In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it.

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  Inspirational, Order, Comfort

  "Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts".

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• The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger and the pain of a loss, you will not be able to feel anything else until that area heals. In other words, stay out of your own way. Let yourself feel bad if you want to feel bad. Feel joy, too. Healing is taking place. Give yourself the gift of healing.

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  Depression, Pain, Healing

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• there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

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  Hurt, Done, Accepting

  Peter McWilliams (1971). “Come Love with Me and be My Life & Surviving”

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• This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

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  Self, Giving, Support

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

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• I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.

  Peter McWilliams

  Loneliness, Love You, Two

  Peter McWilliams (1977). “Catch me with your smile”, Blue Mountain Press

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• If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Want, Ifs

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• The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

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  Religious, Government, Views

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• There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.

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  Sea, Breathing, Balance

  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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• Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

  Peter McWilliams

  Definitions, Life Happens, Victim

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• The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

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  Taken, Practice, Religion

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.

  Peter McWilliams

  Tired, Thinking, People

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