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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEAsk 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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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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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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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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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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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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
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