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.
JAMES ALLENThe 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.
JAMES ALLENA man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
JAMES ALLENThe act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.
JAMES ALLENThe man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
JAMES ALLENAll that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
JAMES ALLENThe sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
JAMES ALLENHe who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
JAMES ALLENMan is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
JAMES ALLENThe “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
JAMES ALLENMen imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
JAMES ALLENCircumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
JAMES ALLENThought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
JAMES ALLENThoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
JAMES ALLENHe who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
JAMES ALLENAll that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
JAMES ALLENSuffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
JAMES ALLEN