Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Pealewas an American minister and authorand a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth31 May 1898
CityBowersville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
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No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.
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Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.
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God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.
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You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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. . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.
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A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
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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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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
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Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word...POSSIBLE."
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.