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Norman Vincent Peale Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you have zest and enthusiasm y
ou attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life Quotes and Sayings

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen

Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie