The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALENever 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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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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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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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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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Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
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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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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.
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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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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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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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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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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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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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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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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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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
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