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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEWatch 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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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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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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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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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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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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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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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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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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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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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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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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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe.
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Stand 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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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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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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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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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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