Peter McWilliams Inspirational Quotations

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

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.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

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.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

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.

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

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.

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.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

Emotion is energy in motion.

You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.

To affirm is to make firm.

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

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 can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.