Peter Alexander McWilliams (August 5, 1949 – June 14, 2000) was an American self-help author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana.
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
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.
For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.
In life, we have either reasons or results
Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.
Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
Nothing adventured, nothing attained
I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide. . . that is beauty. That is love.
Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.
You are powerful. Sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. You are. You can continue arm wrestling with yourself, or you can use both arms, your whole heart, and all your strength to wrestle with greatness. The choice is yours.
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
Keep your goals away from the trolls.
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?
. . 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.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.