Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them. - Norman Vincent Peale

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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

Norman Vincent Peale

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

Choice, Choices, Choose, Encouragement, Things

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The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

Helping, Know, Live, Prayer, Respond, Way

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.

Fun, Inner, Inseparable, Pain, Spiritual, Turn

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself. . . nothing is impossible!

Encouragement, Heart, Inspirational, Mind, Nothing, Shoulders

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

Bad, Christian, Fifteen, Habit, Mind, Worry

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Come, Expect, Great Things, Things

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Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

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Symons. . . remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.

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