Norman Vincent Peale - Life Quotes

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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

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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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The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

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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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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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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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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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Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

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If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

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Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

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Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

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The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

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One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

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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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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings, but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

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Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

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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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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

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There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.

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Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

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Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. Problems make one better able to cope with life.

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The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

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Who is God? Some theological being? He is so much greater than theology. God is vitality. God is life. God is energy. As you breathe God in, as you visualize His energy, you will be reenergized!

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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

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I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.

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The more jealousy one has in his nature the more critical he is of those who have accomplished things.
If you are critical and mouthing negativisms it could be that your own failures are caused by a mixed-up, hate-filled mind. A sign of mental health is to be glad when others achieve, and to rejoice with them. Never compare yourself or your achievements with others, but make your comparisons only with yourself. Maintain a constant competition with yourself This will force you to attain higher standards and achievements. do not defeat yourself by holding spiteful or jealous thoughts. Think straight, with love, hope and optimism and you will attain victory in life.

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