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Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
Peter McWilliams
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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
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Film Director
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Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
Peter mcwilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams
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Heroes became heroes flaws and all gives us hope. You mean I don't have to be perfect to fulfill my Dream, to make a contribution? Hardly. It takes commitment, courage, and passion to live a dream and make a contribution. Heroes had these qualities along with their flaws.
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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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By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.
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Emotion is energy in motion.
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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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The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
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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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Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
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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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Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.
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