237 Quotes by Peter McWilliams

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction...

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don’t create a Master Teacher – that’s already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We’re especially responsible for the one’s we put there.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real – a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn’t. Well, sorry, that’s not life here on earth.

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.

There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don’t get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we’re not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.