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Peter Mcwilliams Inspirational Quotes (97)

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Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in Poof! There it is - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
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Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day
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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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If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
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To affirm is to make firm.
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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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The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
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Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
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Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.
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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
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Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
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Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.
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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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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.
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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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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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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
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When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
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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.
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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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Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.
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To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
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As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
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