The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
JAMES ALLENHe who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
More James Allen Quotes
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Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
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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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You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
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You will be what you will to be.
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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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Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.
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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 cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
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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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The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.
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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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You cannot travel within and stand still without.
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Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
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The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
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All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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The dream is the promise for what you will be one day.
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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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They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
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Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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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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