A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
JAMES ALLENThe Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.
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Only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.
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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that the right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about the right results.
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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.
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He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
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You cannot travel within and stand still without.
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He that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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You will be what you will to be.
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Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.
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Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.
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For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
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As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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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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Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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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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All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
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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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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
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