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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEThe tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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The 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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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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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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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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You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.
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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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Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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