Peter McWilliams
Peter McWilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams was an American self-help author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 August 1949
CountryUnited States of America
reality cherish-every-moment realization
AIDS has come upon us with cruel abandon. It has forced us to confront and deal with the frailty of our being and the reality of death. It has forced us into a realization that we must cherish every moment of the glorious experience of this thing we call life. We are learning to value our own lives of our loved ones as if any moment may be the last.
fear giving-up people
Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.
laughter get-well essentials
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.
inspirational energy be-prepared
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.
depression jobs children
..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.
fear overcoming action
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
yoga taken thinking
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
acceptance law discipline
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
anger acceptance successful
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
marijuana government people
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.
giving people our-words
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such....
firsts action belief
If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
disappointment moving simple
The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
school adversity people
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.