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For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
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Film Director
Poet
Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
Peter mcwilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams
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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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Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
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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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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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I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.
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To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.
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As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
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In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it.
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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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People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
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Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
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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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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. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
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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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If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.
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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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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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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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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.
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