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
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. - Norman Vincent Peale
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. - Norman Vincent Peale
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. - 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
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. - Norman Vincent Peale
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are. - Norman Vincent Peale
The line of inner peace; being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence. - Norman Vincent Peale
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. - 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 trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - 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
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. - 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
When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you. - Norman Vincent Peale
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. - Naomi Wolf