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More Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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.
Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.
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.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
