Norman Vincent Peale - Mind Quotes

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Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

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The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

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Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

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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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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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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

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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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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

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To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.

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Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.

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Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

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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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Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

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You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

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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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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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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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When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

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Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

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The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

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Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

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Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

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Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.

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If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

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Of vast importance in achieving peace of mind is dealing with the contents of mind itself: the mass of all ill thoughts you have stored up over the years, all the regrets, all the futilities, all the hidden sins, all the hates, all the grudges, all the vindictiveness. The minds of many people are filled with pockets of poison.

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

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Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations. The widest rainbow I have ever seen stretched from the lake over a high snow-clad mountain to touch down in a deep valley in the Alps. There was about this gigantic rainbow a deep benediction of peace and hope. But as ineffable as nature is in the effect of natural beauty on the mind, it cannot match the peace of God in its healing effect on the human mind.

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