Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
JAMES ALLENHe must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
More James Allen Quotes
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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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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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Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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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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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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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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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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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 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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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