We tend to get what we expect.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEThe 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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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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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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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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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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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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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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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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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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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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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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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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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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