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Quotes by Peter McWilliams

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
– Peter McWilliams
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
– Peter McWilliams
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
– Peter McWilliams
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.
– Peter McWilliams
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
If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
– Peter McWilliams
It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
– Peter McWilliams
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
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some expert... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
– Peter McWilliams
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
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
– Peter McWilliams
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
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
– Peter McWilliams
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
– Peter McWilliams
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
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
– Peter McWilliams
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.
– Peter McWilliams
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
– Peter McWilliams
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
– Peter McWilliams
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
– Peter McWilliams
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
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
The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
– Peter McWilliams
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
– Peter McWilliams
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
– Peter McWilliams
[S]tubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.
– Peter McWilliams
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