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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEHave 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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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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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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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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We tend to get what we expect.
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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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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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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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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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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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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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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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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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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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Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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