Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEIf you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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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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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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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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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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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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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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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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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