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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.

Norman Vincent Peale

Mind, World, Determined

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.

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Running, Men, Get To Know Me

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

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Positive Thinking, Negative, Results

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

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Night, Worry, Mind

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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Libertarian, World, Unfinished

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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

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Life, Laughter, Kindness

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Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

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Love Is, Years, Practice

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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, Block, Successful

Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.69, Open Road Media

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Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

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Self, Growth, Bigger

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

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Struggle, Mind, Problem

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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.

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Attitude, Practice, Worry

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

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Wealth, Capitalist

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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

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Giving, Joy, Eulogy

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

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Heart, Stay Positive, Desire

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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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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Fun, Hard Times, Dull

Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.163, Open Road Media

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... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.

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Uplifting, Mean, Achievement

Norman Vincent Peale (1982). “The amazing results of positive thinking”, Fawcett

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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

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Gun, Sheep, Liberty

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The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

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Motivational, Peace, Temptation

Norman Vincent Peale (2016). “Reaching Your Potential”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

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Strong, Thinking, Remember

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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

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Inspirational Life, Satisfaction, Problem

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

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Motivational, Opportunity, Ideas

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

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Believe, Successful, Facts

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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To go fast, row slowly.

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Motivational

Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

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Good Intentions, Intention, Obedience

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Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

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Kindness, People, Complaining

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Born: May 31, 1898
Died: December 24, 1993
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