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Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
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The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health....our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
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Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.
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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
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The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
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To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.
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Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.
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Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.
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The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.
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Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.
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Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
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Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light
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One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
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And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
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Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.
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I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.
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Born:
May 31, 1898
Died:
December 24, 1993
(aged 95)
Bio:
Norman Vincent Peale was an American minister and author and a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts.
Known for:
The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
You can ifyou think you can (1974)
Positive Imaging (1981)
Enthusiasm makes the difference (1967)
Amazing Results of Positive Thinking (1959)
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