{"id":161033,"date":"2023-05-31T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=161033"},"modified":"2023-05-31T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:06:05","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-norman-vincent-peale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=161033","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Norman Vincent Peale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY&#8230;Norman Vincent Peale May 31, 1898 \u2013 December 24, 1993<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Vincent_Peale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-161044 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/250px-Norman_Vincent_Peale_NYWTS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/250px-Norman_Vincent_Peale_NYWTS-1.jpg 265w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/250px-Norman_Vincent_Peale_NYWTS-1-119x89.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8230; Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it&#8217;s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don&#8217;t have any problems, you don&#8217;t get any seeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When every physical and mental resources is focused, one&#8217;s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tend to get what we expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY&#8230;Norman Vincent Peale May 31, 1898 \u2013 December 24, 1993 &#8220;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&#8230; Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;ve all heard that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/250px-Norman_Vincent_Peale_NYWTS-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161046,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161033\/revisions\/161046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}