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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEOne of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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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.
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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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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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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.
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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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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.
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