Quotes by "Peter McWilliams"

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

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.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

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.

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