Peter McWilliams Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
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Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
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Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
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Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.
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The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.
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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.
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That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
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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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Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?
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If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
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For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.
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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
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For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.
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In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it.
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And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.
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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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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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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
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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.
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