Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
JAMES ALLENAll that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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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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When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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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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You will be what you will to be.
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Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
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The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
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Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
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As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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The lazy man does the hardest work.
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Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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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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