Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

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Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

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You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

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We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

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