What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEThe tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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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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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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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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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.
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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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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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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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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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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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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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