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

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

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

- Peter McWilliams

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

- Peter McWilliams

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

- Peter McWilliams

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

- Peter McWilliams

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

- Peter McWilliams

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

- Peter McWilliams

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

- Peter McWilliams

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

- Peter McWilliams

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

- Peter McWilliams

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

- Peter McWilliams

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

- Peter McWilliams

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

- Peter McWilliams

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

- Peter McWilliams

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

- 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

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

- Peter McWilliams

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

- Peter McWilliams

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

- Peter McWilliams