The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEPositive 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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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 more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
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If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”
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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
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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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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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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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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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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A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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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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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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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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