Dr. Joseph Murphy was a renowned author and motivational speaker.
His book “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” was a big hit. His other notable books are: The Miracles Of Your Mind, How To Attract Money, Magic of Faith, Believe in Yourself, Your Infinite Power To Be Rich, Psychic Perception, Telepsychics, Techniques in Prayer Therapy, How To Use The Laws Of Mind, The Cosmic Power Within You, Miracle Power for Infinite Riches, How To Use Your Healing Power, 52 Weekly Affirmations, Riches Are Your Right etc.
Here’s a list of quotes by Dr. Joseph Murphy on a wide variety of topics including Bible, Subconscious mind, imagination, prayer, affirmations, happiness, health, healing, being rich, business, success and life. Beauty of his words is that he explains very deep things in a very easy to understand way.
Quotes by Dr. Joseph Murphy
1. We must charge our mental pictures with feeling in order to get results. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
2. When your mind is engaged on your goal or objective, you are using the creative law of mind, and it will come to pass. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
3. Through your faculty to imagine the end result, you have control over any circumstance or condition. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
4. The master-architect within you will project on the screen of visibility what you impress on your mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
5. Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
6. You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
7. Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and infinite supply of all that is necessary, which is waiting for development and expression. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
8. Through the wisdom of your subconscious mind you can attract the ideal companion, as well as the right business associate or partner. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
9. It is your right to discover this inner world of thought, feeling, and power, of light, love, and beauty. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
10. There is a miraculous healing power in your subconscious that can heal the troubled mind and the broken heart. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
11. Your subconscious mind is principle and works according to the law of belief. The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself. The belief of your mind is the thought of your mind–that is simple–just that and nothing else. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
12. Knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
13. Most of the great scientists, artists, poets, singers, writers, and inventors have a deep understanding of the workings of the conscious and subconscious minds. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
14. The treasure house is within you. Look within for the answer to your heart’s desire. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
15. The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
16. Your subconscious has the answer to all problems. If you suggest to your subconscious prior to sleep, “I want to get up at 6 A.M.,” it will awaken you at that exact time. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
17. Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
18. Your subconscious mind controls all the vital processes of your body and knows the answer to all problems. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
19. Prior to sleep, turn over a specific request to your subconscious mind and prove its miracle-working power to yourself. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
20. Whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as conditions, experiences, and events. Therefore, you should carefully watch all ideas and thoughts entertained in your conscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
21. The law of action and reaction is universal. Your thought is action, and the reaction is the automatic response of your subconscious mind to your thought. Watch your thoughts! – Dr. Joseph Murphy
22. All frustration is due to unfulfilled desires. If you dwell on obstacles, delays, and difficulties, your subconscious mind responds accordingly, and you are blocking your own good. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
23. The Life Principle will flow through you rhythmically and harmoniously if you consciously affirm: “I believe that the subconscious power which gave me this desire is now fulfilling it through me.” This dissolves all conflicts. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
24. You can interfere with the normal rhythm of your heart, lungs, and other organs by worry, anxiety, and fear. Feed your subconscious with thoughts of harmony, health, and peace, and all the functions of your body will become normal again. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
25. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
26. Imagine the happy ending or solution to your problem, feel the thrill of accomplishment, and what you imagine and feel will be accepted by your subconscious mind and bring it to pass. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
27. Remind yourself frequently that the healing power is in your own subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
28. Know that faith is like a seed planted in the ground; it grows after its kind. Plant the idea (seed) in your mind, water and fertilize it with expectancy, and it will manifest. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
29. The idea you have for a book, new invention, or play is real in your mind. This is why you can believe you have it now. Believe in the reality of your idea, plan, or invention, and as you do, it will become manifest. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
30. In praying for another, know that your silent inner knowing of wholeness, beauty, and perfection can change the negative patterns of the other’s subconscious mind and bring about wonderful results. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
31. The miraculous healings you hear about at various shrines are due to imagination and blind faith which act on the subconscious mind, releasing the healing power. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
32. All disease originates in the mind. Nothing appears on the body unless there is a mental pattern corresponding to it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
33. The symptoms of almost any disease can be induced in you by hypnotic suggestion. This shows you the power of your thought. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
34. There is only one process of healing and that is faith. There is only one healing power, namely, your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
35. Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind, and that will suffice. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
36. Find out what it is that heals you. Realize that correct directions given to your subconscious mind will heal your mind and body. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
37. Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
38. Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through, and you will get definite results. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
39. Decide what belief is. Know that belief is a thought in your mind, and what you think you create. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
40. It is foolish to believe in sickness and something to hurt or to harm you. Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth, and divine guidance. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
41. Great and noble thoughts upon which you habitually dwell become great acts. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
42. Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain plan, idea, or mental picture. Mentally and emotionally unite with that idea, and as you remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
43. Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, you can have it through faith, which means knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
44. Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
45. Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and resurrected in the mind of your loved one. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
46. Be a mental engineer and use tried and proven techniques in building a grander and greater life. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
47. Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality, and you will experience the joy of the answered prayer. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
48. Desire to accomplish things the easy way–with the sure aid of mental science. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
49. You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
50. Experiment scientifically until you personally prove that there is always a direct response from the infinite intelligence of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
51. Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of your desire. Any mental picture, which you have in your mind, is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
52. A mental picture is worth a thousand words. Your subconscious will bring to pass any picture held in the mind backed by faith. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
53. Avoid all effort or mental coercion in prayer. Get into a sleepy, drowsy state and lull yourself to sleep feeling and knowing that your prayer is answered. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
54. Remember that the thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
55. To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude of mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, you will receive an answer to your prayer. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
56. Generate electronic waves of harmony, health, and peace by thinking of the love and the glory of God. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
57. What you decree and feel as true will come to pass. Decree harmony, health, peace, and abundance. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
58. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and is on the job 24 hours a day. You interfere with its life giving patterns by negative thinking. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
59. Charge your subconscious with the task of evolving an answer to any problem, prior to sleep and it will answer you. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
60. Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus–your abdominal brain–and is brought into your world as a reality. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
61. Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blueprint to your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
62. The tendency of your subconscious is always lifeward. Your job is with your conscious mind. Feed your subconscious mind with premises, which are true. Your subconscious is always reproducing according to your habitual mental patterns. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
63. You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body by changing your thoughts and keeping them changed. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
64. It is normal to be healthy. It is abnormal to be ill. There is within the innate principle of harmony. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
65. Thoughts of jealousy, fear, worry, and anxiety tear down and destroy your nerves and glands bringing about mental and physical diseases of all kinds. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
66. What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made manifest in your mind, body and affairs. Affirm the good and enter into the joy of living. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
67. Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear, which block your answer. Easy does it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
68. When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your subconscious goes to work to execute the idea. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
69. Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there is always an answer and a solution to every problem. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
70. Do not be overly concerned with the beating of your heart, with the breathing of your lungs, or the functions of any part of your anatomy. Lean heavily upon your subconscious and proclaim frequently that Divine right action is taking place. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
71. The feeling of health produces health; the feeling of wealth produces wealth. How do you feel? – Dr. Joseph Murphy
72. Imagination is your most powerful faculty. Imagine what is lovely and of good report. You are what you imagine yourself to be. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
73. You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in the sleepy state. Imagine the fulfillment of your desire over and over again prior to sleep. Sleep in peace and wake in joy. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
74. Decide to be wealthy the easy way, with the infallible aid of your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
75. Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
76. Wealth is a subconscious conviction. Build into your mentality the idea of wealth. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
77. The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means of support. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
78. Repeat the word, “Wealth,” to yourself slowly and quietly for about five minutes prior to sleep and your subconscious will bring wealth to pass in your experience. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
79. The feeling of wealth produces wealth. Keep this in mind at all times. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
80. Your conscious and subconscious mind must agree. Your subconscious accepts what you really feel to be true. The dominant idea is always accepted by your subconscious mind. The dominant idea should be wealth, not poverty. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
81. You can overcome any mental conflict regarding wealth by affirming frequently, “By day and by night I am being prospered in all of my interests.” – Dr. Joseph Murphy
82. Increase your sales by repeating this statement over and over again, “My sales are improving every day; I am advancing, progressing, and getting wealthier every day.” – Dr. Joseph Murphy
83. Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth, and success in your subconscious mind, and the latter will give you compound interest. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
84. What you consciously affirm, you must not mentally deny a few moments later. This will neutralize the good you have affirmed. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
85. Your true source of wealth consists of the ideas in your mind. You can have an idea worth millions of dollars. Your subconscious will give you the idea you seek. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
86. Envy and jealousy are stumbling blocks to the flow of wealth. Rejoice in the prosperity of others. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
87. The block to wealth is in your own mind. Destroy that block now by getting on good mental terms with everyone. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
88. Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich and your deeper mind will honor your claim. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
89. You don’t want just enough to go around. You want all the money you need to do all the things you want to do and when you want to do them. Get acquainted with the riches of your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
90. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy. Look at money like the tide and you will always have plenty of it. The ebb and flow of the tide is constant. When the tide is out, you are absolutely sure that it will return. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
91. Knowing the laws of your subconscious mind, you will always be supplied regardless of what form money takes. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
92. One reason many people simply make ends meet and never have enough money is that they condemn money. What you condemn takes wings and flies away. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
93. Do not make a god of money. It is only a symbol. Remember that the real riches are in your mind. You are here to lead a balanced life–this includes acquiring all the money you need. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
94. Don’t make money your sole aim. Claim wealth, happiness, peace, true expression, and love, and personally radiate love and good will to all. Then your subconscious mind will give you compound interest in all these fields of expression. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
95. There is no virtue in poverty. It is a disease of the mind, and you should heal yourself of this mental conflict or malady at once. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
96. You are not here to live in a hovel, to dress in rags, or to go hungry. You are here to lead the life more abundant. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
97. Never use the terms “filthy lucre” or “I despise money.” You lose what you criticize. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking of it in either light makes it so. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
98. Repeat frequently, “I like money. I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. I release it with joy, and it returns a thousand fold.” – Dr. Joseph Murphy
99. Money is not evil any more so than copper, lead, tin, or iron which you may find in the ground. All evil is due to ignorance and misuse of the mind’s powers. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
100. To picture the end result in your mind causes your subconscious to respond and fulfill your mental picture. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
101. Stop trying to get something for nothing. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You must give to receive. You must give mental attention to your goals, ideals, and enterprises, and your deeper mind will back you up. The key to wealth is application of the laws of the subconscious mind by impregnating it with the idea of wealth. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
102. Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous, and doing what you love to do, you are successful. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
103. Find out what you love to do, and then do it. If you don’t know your true expression, ask for guidance, and the lead will come. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
104. Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
105. A successful man is not selfish. His main desire in life is to serve humanity. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
106. There is no true success without peace of mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
107. A successful man possesses great psychological and spiritual understanding. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
108. If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided with the necessities through the wonder-working power of your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
109. Your thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective belief, and according to your belief is it done unto you. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
110. The power of sustained imagination draws forth the miracle-working powers of your subconscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
111. If you are seeking promotion in your work, imagine your employer, supervisor, or loved one congratulating you on your promotion. Make the picture vivid and real. Hear the voice, see the gestures, and feel the reality of it all. Continue to do this frequently, and through frequent occupancy of your mind, you will experience the joy of the answered prayer. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
112. Your subconscious mind is a storehouse of memory. For a perfect memory, affirm frequently: “The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me everything I need to know at all times, everywhere.” – Dr. Joseph Murphy
113. If you wish to sell a home or property of any kind, affirm slowly, quietly, and feelingly as follows: “Infinite intelligence attracts to me the buyer for this house or property, who wants it, and who prospers in it.” Sustain this awareness, and the deeper currents of your subconscious mind will bring it to pass. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
114. The idea of success contains all the elements of success. Repeat the word, “success,” to yourself frequently with faith and conviction, and you will be under a subconscious compulsion to succeed. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
115. Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
116. By giving your conscious attention and devotion to the solution of a perplexing problem, your subconscious mind gathers all the necessary information and presents it full blown to the conscious mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
117. If you are wondering about the answer to a problem, try to solve it objectively. Get all the information you can from research and also from others. If no answer comes, turn it over to your subconscious mind prior to sleep, and the answer always comes. It never fails. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
118. You do not always get the answer overnight. Keep on turning your request over to your subconscious until the daybreaks and the shadows flee away. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
119. You delay the answer by thinking it will take a long time or that it is a major problem. Your subconscious has no problem it knows only the answer. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
120. Believe that you have the answer now. Feel the joy of the answer and the way you would feel if you had the perfect answer. Your subconscious will respond to your feeling. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
121. Any mental picture, backed by faith and perseverance, will come to pass through the miracle-working power of your subconscious. Trust it, believe in its power, and wonders will happen as you pray. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
122. Your subconscious is the storehouse of memory, and within your subconscious are recorded all your experiences since childhood. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
123. Scientists meditating on ancient scrolls, temples, fossils, etc., are able to reconstruct scenes of the past and make them alive today. Their subconscious mind comes to their aid. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
124. Turn over your request for a solution to your subconscious prior to sleep. Trust it and believe in it, and the answer will come. It knows all and sees all, but you must not doubt or question its powers. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
125. The action is your thought, and the reaction is the response of your subconscious mind. If your thoughts are wise, your actions and decisions will be wise. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
126. Guidance comes as a feeling, an inner awareness, an overpowering hunch whereby you know that you know. It is an inner sense of touch. Follow it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
127. If you are worried that you will not wake up on time, suggest to your subconscious mind prior to sleep the exact time you wish to arise, and it will awaken you. It needs no clock. Do the same thing with all problems. There is nothing too hard for your subconscious. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
128. Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions. Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much more rapidly. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
129. Guidance is given you while you are asleep, sometimes in a dream. The healing currents are also released, and in the morning you feel refreshed and rejuvenated. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
130. When troubled by the vexations and strife of the day, still the wheels of your mind and think about the wisdom and intelligence lodged in your subconscious mind, which is ready to respond to you. This will give you peace, strength, and confidence. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
131. Sleep is essential for peace of mind and health of body. Lack of sleep can cause irritation, depression, and mental disorders. You need eight hours’ sleep. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
132. Medical research scholars point out that insomnia precedes psychotic breakdowns. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
133. You are spiritually recharged during sleep. Adequate sleep is essential for joy and vitality in life. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
134. Your tired brain craves sleep so hungrily that it will sacrifice anything to get it. Many who have fallen asleep at the wheel of an automobile can testify to this. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
135. Many sleep-deprived people have poor memories and lack proper coordination. They become befuddled, confused, and disorientated. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
136. Sleep brings counsel. Prior to sleep, claim that the infinite intelligence of your subconscious mind is guiding and directing you. Then, watch for the lead, which comes, perhaps on awakening. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
137. Trust your subconscious completely. Know that its tendency is always lifeward. Occasionally, your subconscious answers you in a very vivid dream and a vision in the night. You can be forewarned in a dream in the same way as the author of this book was warned. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
138. Your future is in your mind now, based on your habitual thinking and beliefs. Claim infinite intelligence leads and guides you and that all good is yours, and your future will be wonderful. Believe it and accept it. Expect the best, and invariably the best will come to you. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
139. If you are writing a novel, play, or book, or are working on an invention, speak to your subconscious mind at night and claim boldly that its wisdom, intelligence, and power are guiding, directing, and revealing to you the ideal play, novel, book, or revealing the perfect solution whatever it may be. Wonders will happen as you pray this way. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
140. Ignorance of mental and spiritual laws is the cause of all marital unhappiness. By praying scientifically together, you stay together. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
141. The best time to prevent divorce is before marriage. If you learn how to pray in the right way, you will attract the right mate for you. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
142. Marriage is the union of a man and woman who are bound together by love. Their hearts beat as one, and they move onward, upward, and Godward. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
143. Marriage does not bequeath happiness. People find happiness by dwelling on the eternal truths of God and the spiritual values of life. Then, the man and woman can contribute to each other’s happiness and joy. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
144. You attract the right mate by dwelling on the qualities and characteristics you admire in a woman or a man, and then your subconscious mind will bring you together in divine order. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
145. You must build into your mentality the mental equivalent of what you want in a marriage partner. If you want to attract an honest, sincere, and loving partner in life, you must be honest, sincere, and loving yourself. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
146. You do not have to repeat mistakes in marriage. When you really believe you can have the type man or woman you idealize, it is done unto you, as you believe. To believe is to accept something as true. Accept your ideal companion now mentally. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
147. Do not wonder how, why, or where you will meet the mate you are praying for. Trust implicitly the wisdom of your subconscious mind. It has the “know how,” and you don’t have to assist it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
148. You are mentally divorced when you indulge in peeves, grudges, ill will, and hostility toward your marriage partner. You are mentally dwelling with error in the bed of your mind. Adhere to your marriage vows, “I promise to cherish, love, and honor him (or her) all the days of my life.” – Dr. Joseph Murphy
149. Cease projecting fear patterns to your marriage partner. Project love, peace, harmony, and good will, and your marriage will grow more beautiful and more wonderful through the years. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
150. Radiate love, peace, and good will to each other. These vibrations are picked up by the subconscious mind resulting in mutual trust, affection, and respect. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
151. A nagging wife is usually seeking attention and appreciation. She is craving for love and affection. Praise and exalt her many good points. Show her that you love her and appreciate her. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
152. A man who loves his wife does not do anything unloving or unkind in word, manner, or action. Love is what love does. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
153. In marital problems, always seek expert advice. You would not go to a carpenter to pull a tooth; neither should you discuss your marriage problems with relatives or friends. You should go to a trained person for counsel. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
154. Never try to make your wife or husband over. These attempts are always foolish and tend to destroy the pride and self esteem of the other. Moreover, it arouses a spirit of resentment that proves fatal to the marriage bond. Cease trying to make the other a second edition of yourself. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
155. Pray together and you will stay together. Scientific prayer solves all problems. Mentally picture your wife as she ought to be, joyous, happy, healthy, and beautiful. See your husband, as he ought to be, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and kind. Maintain this mental picture, and you will experience the marriage made in heaven, which is harmony and peace. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
156. There is tremendous power within you. Happiness will come to you when you acquire a sublime confidence in this power. Then, you will make your dreams come true. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
157. You can rise victorious over any defeat and realize the cherished desires of your heart through the marvelous power of your subconscious mind. This is the meaning of whosoever trusteth in the Lord [spiritual laws of the subconscious mind], happy is he. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
158. When you open your eyes in the morning, say to yourself, I choose happiness today. I choose success today. I choose right action today. I choose love and good will for all today. I choose peace today. Pour life, love, and interest into this affirmation, and you have chosen happiness. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
159. Give thanks for all your blessings several times a day. Furthermore, pray for the peace, happiness, and prosperity of all members of your family, your associates, and all people everywhere. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
160. You must sincerely desire to be happy. Nothing is accomplished without desire. Desire is a wish with wings of imagination and faith. Imagine the fulfillment of your desire, and feel its reality, and it will come to pass. Happiness comes in answered prayer. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
161. By constantly dwelling on thoughts of fear, worry, anger, hate, and failure, you will become very depressed and unhappy. Remember, your life is what your thoughts make of it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
162. You cannot buy happiness with all the money in the world. Some millionaires are very happy, some are very unhappy. Many people with very little worldly goods are very happy, and some are very unhappy. Some married people are happy, and some very unhappy. Some single people are happy, and some are very unhappy. The kingdom of happiness is in your thought and feeling. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
163. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security, and divine guidance, and your mind will be productive of happiness. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
164. There is no block to your happiness. External things are not causative; these are effects, not cause. Take your cue from the only creative principle within you. Your thought is cause, and a new cause produces a new effect. Choose happiness. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
165. The happiest man is he who brings forth the highest and the best in him. God is the highest and the best in him, for the kingdom of God is within. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
166. The solution lies within the problem. The answer is in every question. Infinite intelligence responds to you as you call upon it with faith and confidence. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
167. Habit is the function of your subconscious mind. There is no greater evidence of the marvelous power of your subconscious than the force and sway habit holds in your life. You are a creature of habit. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
168. You form habit patterns in your subconscious mind by repeating a thought and act over and over again until it establishes tracks in the subconscious mind and becomes automatic, such as swimming, dancing, typing, walking, driving your car, etc. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
169. You have freedom to choose. You can choose a good habit or a bad habit. Prayer is a good habit. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
170. Whatever mental picture, backed by faith, you behold in your conscious mind, and your subconscious mind will bring to pass. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
171. The only obstacle to your success and achievement is your own thought or mental image. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
172. When your attention wanders, bring it back to the contemplation of your good or goal. Make a habit of this. This is called disciplining the mind. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
173. Your conscious mind is the camera, and your subconscious mind is the sensitive plate on which you register or impress the picture. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
174. The only jinx that follows anyone is a fear thought repeated over and over in the mind. Break the jinx by knowing that whatever you start you will bring to a conclusion in divine order. Picture the happy ending and sustain it with confidence. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
175. To form a new habit, you must be convinced that it is desirable. When your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your desire to continue, you are fifty-one percent healed already. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
176. The statements of others cannot hurt you except through your own thoughts and mental participation. Identify your self with your aim, which is peace, harmony, and joy. You are the only thinker in your universe. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
177. Excessive drinking is an unconscious desire to escape. The cause of alcoholism is negative and destructive thinking. The cure is to think of freedom, sobriety, and perfection, and to feel the thrill of accomplishment. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
178. Many people remain alcoholics because they refuse to admit it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
179. The law of your subconscious mind, which held you in bondage and inhibited your freedom of action, will give you freedom and happiness. It depends on how you use it. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
180. Your imagination took you to the bottle; let it take you to freedom by imagining you are free. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
181. The real cause of alcoholism is negative and destructive thinking. As a man thinketh in his heart [subconscious mind], so is he. – Dr. Joseph Murphy
182. When fear knocks at the door of your mind, let faith in God and all things good open the door. – Dr. Joseph Murphy