Peter McWilliams Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

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

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Alive, Contagious

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  11 Copy quote

• Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

  Peter McWilliams

  Pain, Emotional, Advice

  4 Copy quote

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Ambition, Comfort, Excuse

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

  8 Copy quote

• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Moved

  14 Copy quote

• If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

  Peter McWilliams

  Enjoy, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no more messing around with legislatures, presidents, or other bothersome formalities. When MDMA (ecstasy) was made illegal in 1986, no elected official voted on that. It was done "in house." People are now in jail because they did something that an administrator declared was wrong.

  Peter McWilliams

  Law, Jail, People

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  5 Copy quote

• Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.

  Peter McWilliams

  Reality, Focus, Vision

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough fortitude and they probably wouldnt succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.

  Peter McWilliams

  Falling In Love, Real, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

  Peter McWilliams

  Guilt

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Acceptance, Law, Discipline

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1993). “We Give to Love: Giving Is Such a Selfish Thing : Notes and Quotes on the Joys of Heartfelt Service”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  7 Copy quote

• The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

  Peter McWilliams

  War, People, Choices

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  4 Copy quote

• What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Others Opinions, Goal

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

  8 Copy quote

• The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Differences, Labels

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

  4 Copy quote

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Giving Up, Fear, People

  4 Copy quote

• For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Want, Can't Change

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

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

  7 Copy quote

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Experts, Hopeless, Media Bias

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Past, Yesterday, Burden

  4 Copy quote

Page 4 of 7

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin