Peter McWilliams Quotes

Fear is exciting for me.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.