About
“The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale is about how you can keep your heart and thoughts free of hatred and anxiety. Living simply means expecting less and giving more. Give light, put yourself aside, and consider others. You’ll see a difference after a week of using them.
The book’s content focuses on teachings on the power of thinking in shaping reality, how to create trust in order to clarify life objectives, and how to deal with challenges. of contemporary life. Even if you don’t agree with the author’s arguments, you could discover that confidence, optimism, and thankfulness for people around you are the keys to a happy life. throughout these pages.
Notable quotes
- “The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
- “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
- “I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hands. There is no harm in the Lord’s hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.”
- “Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
- “Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.”
- “Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient”
- “The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and 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.”
- “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
- “YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.”
- “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.”
- “To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”
- “We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”
- “It is significant that the word “holiness” derives from a word meaning “wholeness” and the word “meditation,” usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word “medication.” The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.”
- “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence, you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.”
- “when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading “occupied.”
- “The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”
- “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
- “Hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results. This”
- “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.”
- “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”