The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
JAMES ALLENThe calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
JAMES ALLENYour circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
JAMES ALLENMen are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
JAMES ALLENThe price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.
JAMES ALLENThe body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
JAMES ALLENAll evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
JAMES ALLENMan is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
JAMES ALLENHe no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
JAMES ALLENAimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
JAMES ALLENThere is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
JAMES ALLENTo 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.
JAMES ALLENAll that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
JAMES ALLENThe world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
JAMES ALLENSelf-seeking is self-destruction.
JAMES ALLENSelf-control is strength, Right Thought is mastery, Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still.
JAMES ALLENThey themselves are makers of themselves.
JAMES ALLEN