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Peter McWilliams

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Peter Alexander McWilliams (August 5, 1949 – June 14, 2000) was an American self-help author and advocate for the legalization of marijuana.

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Quotes from Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

—Peter McWilliams

fear mistakes

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

—Peter McWilliams

fear

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves—at what we did or did not do.

—Peter McWilliams

guilt

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

—Peter McWilliams

guilt

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

—Peter McWilliams

health

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

—Peter McWilliams

health

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.

—Peter McWilliams

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.

—Peter McWilliams

Resentment is anger directed at others—at what they did or did not do.

—Peter McWilliams

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

—Peter McWilliams

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

—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

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

—Peter McWilliams