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Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Norman Vincent Peale
Age: 95 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 31
Died: 1993
Died: December 24
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The word no denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells on.
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I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
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What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
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Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
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