Peter McWilliams famous quotes

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fighting #Silence #Mind

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

#Reality #Focus

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

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

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

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Self Confidence #Comfort

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Motivation #Mistake #May

Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and ***** is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Marijuana #Medicine #Nausea

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

#Getting What You Want #Want #What You Want

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.
-- Peter McWilliams

#People #Hammers #Stones

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Pain #Health #May

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Thinking #Wings #People

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
-- Peter McWilliams

#Creativity #Interesting #Joy

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

#Inspirational #Knowing #Teach

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Ability #Willingness

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Hate #Believe #Cynical

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

#Risk #Irony #Feels

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Positive Thinking #Positivity #Abandoned

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

#People #Alive #Contagious

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Resources

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

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Media #Paper #Faults

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought
-- Peter McWilliams

#Luxury #Negative #Negative Thoughts

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Positive #People #Guilt

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

#Anger #Acceptance #Successful

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Guilt

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Disappointment #Moving #Simple

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
-- Peter McWilliams

#Acceptance #Law #Discipline

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Overcoming #Action

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such....
-- Peter McWilliams

#Giving #People #Our Words

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Firsts #Action #Belief

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

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
-- Peter McWilliams

#Mistake #Gymnastics #Needs

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Clever #Memories #People

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fighting #Paradise #Want

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Dream #Doors

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Stupid #Judging #Dumb

Nothing adventured, nothing attained
-- Peter McWilliams

#Adventure

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Taken #Thinking #Accomplishment

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
-- Peter McWilliams

#School #Adversity #People

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression #Taken #Successful

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Giving Up #People

In life, we have either reasons or results
-- Peter McWilliams

#Reason #Results

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden
-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression #Garden #Rocks

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression #Jobs #Children

The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Differences #Labels

In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Order #Comfort

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Way #Intention

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #World #Degrees

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Thinking #Wealth

To affirm is to make firm.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Firm

..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

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Dream #Steps

You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Want

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Live Life

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression #Purpose #Enthusiasm

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Depression #Thinking #People

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Boys #Emotional

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

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Mind #Responsible

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction...
-- Peter McWilliams

#Thinking #Addiction #Negative

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Want #Next

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Notebook #Peace #Writing

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
-- Peter McWilliams

#People #Giving #Desire

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

#Laughter #Adversity #Joy

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals
-- Peter McWilliams

#Economic #Individual #Economic Systems

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Stupid #Failure #Judging

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Glasses #Optimism #Worry

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Self #Giving #Joy

That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Christian #Religious #Freedom

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Facts #Masters

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

#Men #Thinking #Luxury

Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Believe #Writing

Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Heart #Indulge

..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear #Anxiety #Feelings

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Energy #Be Prepared

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?
-- Peter McWilliams

#Smart #People #Upset

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Religious #Views #Government

The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Struggle #Years #Law

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Teacher #Teaching

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Anger #Emotional #Long

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Hurt #Sorry

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.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Moving #Mean

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Experts #Hopeless #Quotations

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational #Firsts #Kindergarten