237 Quotes by Peter McWilliams

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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.

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.

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.