Enthusiasm makes the difference
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As I rode home in the subway, I studied the faces of the passengers-worried faces, dull faces, unhappy faces.
As I rode home in the subway, I studied the faces of the passengers-worried faces, dull faces, unhappy faces.
About this book
You can have the enthusiasm that makes an exciting difference. Above all else, our greatest desire is to have life. Not mere existence, but a quality of life, a combination of joy, excitement, zest, achievement, purpose and peace of mind.
Themes & subjects
ChristianityReligious aspects of SuccessEnthusiasmReligious aspects of EnthusiasmSuccessPsychology, applied
First published 1973About the author
Norman Vincent Peale
May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993
Norman Vincent Peale was a minister and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts. Raised as a Methodist and ordained as a Methodist minister in 1922, Peale changed his religious affiliation to the Reformed Church in America in 1932 and began a 52-year tenure as pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan. During that time the church's membership grew from 600 to over 5,000, and he became one of New York City's most famous preachers. Peale and Smiley Blanton, a psychoanalyst, established a religio-psychiatric outpatient clinic next door to the church. The two men wrote books tog…
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