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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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Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
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Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.
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That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden
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Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.
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People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
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Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.
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When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
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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.
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Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
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Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear....
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If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?
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I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality — that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.
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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?
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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.
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Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.
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Approach life with acceptance, patience, flowing, giving, grace, effortlessness, simplicity, allowing, acquiescing, permitting, forgiving.
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
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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.
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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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.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Peter McWilliams
Born:
August 5, 1949
Died:
June 14, 2000
(aged 50)
Bio:
Peter Alexander McWilliams was an American self-help author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana.
Known for:
Life 101 (1990)
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (1993)
Love 101 (1995)
Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts (1991)
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