Quotes by Peter McWilliams

“The crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value is creativity.”

“Mistakes show us what we need to learn.”

“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 doesnt get you, the others are waiting in the wings.”

“Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but its a small price to pay for living a dream.”

“To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“All the things you think you should have done that you didnt do, and all of the things that you shouldnt have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. Thats reality. Thats happened. No changing the past.”

“Nothing adventured, nothing attained.”

“Its your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.”

“Dont hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”

“Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.”

“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 pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”

“Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough fortitude and they probably wouldnt succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.”

“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, theres something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.”

“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.”

“Im a confirmed negaholic. I dont just see a glass thats half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass thats completely full and worry that someones going to tip it over.”

“This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.”

“Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.”

“Learn to ask for what you want... The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for-which is precisely where you were before you asked.”

“Life is not a struggle. Its a wiggle.”