Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
JAMES ALLENGood thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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Only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.
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Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
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Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
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A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
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As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
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There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
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No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
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The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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For weakness cannot persist in a power-evolving universe.
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He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
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The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.
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If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
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He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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