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Heart
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
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Holidays
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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Identity
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
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Liberty
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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
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Life
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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
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Mistakes
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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
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Persistence
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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
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Planning
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Potential
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
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Poverty
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Praise
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
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Prayer
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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Problems
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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Procrastination
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
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Promises
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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Resentment
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
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Self-love
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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Serenity
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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Simplicity
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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Speeches (oratory)
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
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Thought
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Books by and about Norman Vincent Peale