One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEPeople fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe.
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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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