Peter McWilliams Quotes - Page 2

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

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.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

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.

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.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

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.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

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.

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.

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.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.