Peter McWilliams Quotes

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The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

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Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

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The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

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

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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.

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For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have....

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

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I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love....

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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

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Acceptance is such an important part of happiness, contentment, health, and growth that some people have called it the 'first law of personal growth'.

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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.

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Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such....

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You are powerful. Sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. You are. You can continue arm wrestling with yourself, or you can use both arms, your whole heart, and all your strength to wrestle with greatness. The choice is yours.

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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.

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

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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

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Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

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Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

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While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die

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Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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