Wilferd Peterson
Wilferd Peterson
reality mind want
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.
hair hands white
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.
kindness sleep ignorance
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
attitude adventure men
Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.
secret alive today
The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
motivational art taken
The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.
motivational wise philosophy
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
motivational book inspiration
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.
laughter happy-life medicine
Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!
art example parenthood
In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.
love-is giving noble
Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.
stars humility love-is
Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.
art good-life golden
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
motivation love-is men
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.