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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.

James Allen

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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Inspirational Success True Yourself
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Deep Himself Man Philosophy
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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Himself Hurt Man Philosophy Suffering
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
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Improvement Man Mental
If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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Body Health Mind Protection Yourself
Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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Intelligence Man Run Wild
The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
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Spiritual Suffering
Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
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Action Life Philosophy Spiritual
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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Man Mental Result Suffering
What you are, so is your world.
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One Liner Spiritual World Yourself
Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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Destruction Himself Vice
All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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Achievement Failure Man Result
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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Character Fate Person Strength True Willing
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
So you will be what you will to be.
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Be Yourself One Liner
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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Enjoyment Growth Heart Music Vision

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