Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

A basic law: The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.

So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.

Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.” LUKE 13:18–19

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” Practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.

Although the life-changing power of positive thinking is available to all, some people experience difficulty in making it work. This is because of some strange psychological barrier that stands between them and the full use of positive thinking? One that keeps cropping up, is simply that they do not want it to work. They do not want to succeed. Actually, they are afraid to succeed. It’s easier to wallow in self-pity. So, we create our own failure, and when a suggestion ( such as positive thinking) comes along that will help overcome that failure, we subconsciously see to it that the suggestion doesn’t work, and so we

Emerson said, “The soul contains the event that shall befall it.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious,
as it houses your mind and spirit.
Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

what you can image you can be.

I do not worry too much; if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

Tuhan memahami semua kesulitan, jadi bicarakanlah denganNya.

We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our LORD Jesus Christ. 1 THESSALONIANS 1:3 OCTOBER 9 To be a true optimist, you have to be rugged and tough in mind. An optimist is a person who believes in a good outcome even when he can’t yet see it. He is a person who believes in a greater day when there is yet no evidence of it. He is one who believes in his own future when he can’t see much possibility in it. A lot of people live under a cloud. But up above the clouds, the sun is always shining. Down here, on the surface of the earth, groping around in the shadows under a low ceiling, a person may not feel optimistic. But you ought to begin to practice optimism. Send up into the mass of dark clouds bright, powerful optimistic thoughts, a bright optimistic faith. By so doing, you can actually dissipate the clouds and have an entirely different life. Constantly send up into the overcast sky that is blanketing your mind bright thoughts of faith, love, hope, thoughts of God, thoughts about the greatness of life.

Courage can be many things, but the secret of courage is simply and honestly to admit your feelings of failure. And then with God’s help go on and do your job in spite of them.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle,