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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEMake a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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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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Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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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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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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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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