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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
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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
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Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
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Peter Alexander McWilliams
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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.
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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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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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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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To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.
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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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As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
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To affirm is to make firm.
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