Peter McWilliams Quotes

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do.

It's when you're not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It's about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don't need to be in a relationship. You don't need anyone to fulfill you.

First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn't matter; you are full, overflowing. If nobody knocks at your door it is perfectly okay; you are not missing. You are not waiting for someone to come and knock at the door. You are at home. If somebody comes: good-beautiful. If nobody comes that too is beautiful and good.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I'm very happy alone.

This is my life. I love it.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.