Peter McWilliams Quotes

"Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take."
-Peter McWilliams

"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."
-Peter McWilliams

"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."
-Peter McWilliams

"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."
-Peter McWilliams in Health quotes.

"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."
-Peter McWilliams

"If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts."
-Peter McWilliams in Peace quotes.

"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."
-Peter McWilliams

"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it 'the first law of personal growth.'"
-Peter McWilliams

"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams

"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
-Peter McWilliams in Mistakes quotes.

"Mistakes show us what we need to learn."
-Peter McWilliams

"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."
-Peter McWilliams in Fear quotes.

"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."
-Peter McWilliams in Health quotes.

"Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from."
-Peter McWilliams in Fear quotes.

"Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from 'won't power' to 'will power.'"
-Peter McWilliams

"Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams

"If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it."
-Peter McWilliams

"All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past."
-Peter McWilliams

"To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation."
-Peter McWilliams in Fear quotes.

"Nothing adventured, nothing attained."
-Peter McWilliams