Quicklet on Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking

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.

escription for Heartache
There is indeed a “prescription” for heartache. One element in the prescription is physical activity…Muscular activity utilizes another part of the brain and therefore shifts the strain and gives relief…Another profoundly creative element in the prescription for heartache is to gain a sound and satisfying philosophy of life and death and deathlessness.

It has been said that thoughts are things, that they actually possess dynamic power. Judged by the power they exercise one can readily accept such an appraisal. You can actually think yourself into or out of situations…Conditions are created by thoughts far more powerfully than conditions create thoughts.

Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

Peale’s first bit of advice is to slow down. That means stop rushing, stop being both physically and emotionally impatient. “The pace of modern life must be reduced if we are not to suffer profoundly from its debilitating over-stimulation and super-excitement. This over-stimulation produces toxic poisons in the body and creates emotional illness.”