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. Peter McWilliams More Quotes by Peter McWilliams More Quotes From Peter McWilliams Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow. Peter McWilliams what-you-love resources inspirational If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. Peter McWilliams belief inspirational firsts Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle. Peter McWilliams struggle inspiring inspirational Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful. Peter McWilliams feelings beautiful people The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire. Peter McWilliams excuse ambition comfort If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either. Peter McWilliams enjoy ifs You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide. Peter McWilliams anything-in-life want 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. Peter McWilliams cynical hate believe Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from. Peter McWilliams moved fear Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe. Peter McWilliams debt worry may Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. Peter McWilliams nausea marijuana medicine This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed. Peter McWilliams healing loss ideas In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it. Peter McWilliams comfort inspirational order The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger and the pain of a loss, you will not be able to feel anything else until that area heals. In other words, stay out of your own way. Let yourself feel bad if you want to feel bad. Feel joy, too. Healing is taking place. Give yourself the gift of healing. Peter McWilliams pain healing depression 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. Peter McWilliams falling-in-love real writing You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate. Peter McWilliams appreciate looks needs 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. Peter McWilliams depression people thinking All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past. Peter McWilliams reality past thinking ..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression. Peter McWilliams depression jobs children Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. Peter McWilliams self-confidence comfort inspirational