Peter McWilliams Quotes
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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.
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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
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One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
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While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
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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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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.
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Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
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Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
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Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
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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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As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
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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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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.
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
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Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
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If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
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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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What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
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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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Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
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To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.