Quotes from Wilferd Peterson

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.

Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power.