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Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. (Peter McWilliams)
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such. View quote
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Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good. View quote
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If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade. View quote
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If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either. View quote
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Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention. View quote
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There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering. View quote
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Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy. View quote
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The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject. View quote
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Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through. View quote
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Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life. (Peter McWilliams)
Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims. View quote
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Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way. View quote
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Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. View quote
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..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600. View quote
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We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged. View quote
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire. View quote
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In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it. View quote
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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. (Peter McWilliams)
If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it. View quote
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The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless. View quote
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If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you? View quote
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Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals. View quote
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