Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEStand 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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Live your life and forget your age.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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Never 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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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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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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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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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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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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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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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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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 tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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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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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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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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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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