Norman Vincent Peale on change
Norman Vincent Peale81 quotes“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Expect great things, and great things will come.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale 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.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale 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.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale 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.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale
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MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
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Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
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Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg A new heart for a New Year, always!
Charles DickensCharles Dickens Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XenophonXenophon Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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