Best Quotes by Peter McWilliams (Top 10)
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It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.
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Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
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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.
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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.
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To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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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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You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought
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Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.
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More Peter McWilliams Quotes
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If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
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Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
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When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.
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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
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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.
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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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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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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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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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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
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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.
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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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