The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
JAMES ALLENHe that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
More James Allen Quotes
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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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The dream is the promise for what you will be one day.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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What you are, so is your world.
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Every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.
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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
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You will be what you will to be.
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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
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The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
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The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.
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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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Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.
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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.
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Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful.
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They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
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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 truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes.
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He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
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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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