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 PEALEProblems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
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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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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself … nothing is impossible!
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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