Peter McWilliams Quotes

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

If you sit in a room and think you're the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big problem. If you are needy, you have to give the same as you need. If I need love, I have to give love. But that's just a personal thing.

I think I was always joyous, but I don't think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.

One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

A friend's only gift is himself.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.

I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

I am giving myself permission to love - ALL of it.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.