Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

— Peter McWilliams

Peter McWilliams Quotes

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

That’s what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden.

— Peter McWilliams

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

In life, we have either reasons or results.

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

— Peter McWilliams

You’re asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can’t buy a toilet seat for under $600.

— Peter McWilliams

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

— Peter McWilliams

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

— Peter McWilliams

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

— Peter McWilliams

Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don’t have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.

— Peter McWilliams

To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change.

— Peter McWilliams

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

— Peter McWilliams

Emotion is energy in motion.

— Peter McWilliams

About Feelings

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

— Peter McWilliams

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

— Peter McWilliams

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

— Peter McWilliams

I’d have a nervous breakdown except that I’ve been through this too many times to be nervous.

— Peter McWilliams

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.

— Peter McWilliams

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