Peter McWilliams
People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.Collection: Inspirational
When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.Collection: Inspirational
You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.Collection: Appreciate
Nothing adventured, nothing attainedCollection: Inspirational
Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.Collection: Worry
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.Collection: Wise
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.Collection: Notebook
If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.Collection: Fighting
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.Collection: Inspirational
The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Pain
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?Collection: Mistake
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting waysCollection: Life
This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.Collection: Healing
Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.Collection: Determination
When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains.Collection: Powerful
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.Collection: Dream
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.Collection: Laughter
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.Collection: Pain
Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.Collection: Appreciation
Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.Collection: Love You
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.Collection: Inspirational
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.Collection: Marijuana
All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.Collection: Reality
First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.Collection: Important Relationships
Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?Collection: May
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.Collection: Yoga
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.Collection: Anger
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".Collection: Acceptance
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.Collection: Inspirational
Emotion is energy in motion.Collection: Inspirational
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.Collection: Fear
The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.Collection: Depression
Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.Collection: Marijuana
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.Collection: People
Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Inspirational
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.Collection: Ambition
If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.Collection: Enjoy
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.Collection: Law
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.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Depression
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.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Anger
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.Collection: Guilt
The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.Collection: War
The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.Collection: Fear
Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.Collection: Inspirational