Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.
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If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.
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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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Become a possibilitarian.
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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.
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Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
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Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.
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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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Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.
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The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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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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Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
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Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
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Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.
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Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.
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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
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Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.
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When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen.
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.