Get your mind so eager, so zestful, so filled with interests that you just cannot be tired. - Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. - Norman Vincent Peale
Life is either a great experience, or a small one, dependent on the quality and character of the thoughts we think. - Norman Vincent Peale
Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a string flow of power through the mind. - Norman Vincent Peale
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. - Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. - Norman Vincent Peale
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. - Norman Vincent Peale
The line of inner peace; being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence. - Norman Vincent Peale
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. - Norman Vincent Peale
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. - Norman Vincent Peale
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. - Norman Vincent Peale
Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamour, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear. - Naomi Wolf
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts. - Naomi Wolf
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion. - Naomi Wolf
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. - Naomi Wolf
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. - Naomi Wolf
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred. - Naomi Wolf
Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner. - Robert DeNiro
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