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Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.

James Allen

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
Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
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Life Man Material Transformation
Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows.
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Healing Hide Human Hurt Power Sacrifice
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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Accomplishment Greatness Himself Inspirational Sacrifice Success
You will be what you will to be.
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One Liner Yourself
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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Action Failure Man Result
The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
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Beautiful Mindset Result Wisdom
Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
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Hands Philosophy Result Yourself
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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Character Generous Poor Satisfaction
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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Deep Ideas Yourself
The dream is the promise for what you will be one day.
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Dream Inspirational Promise Success
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.
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Healthy Philosophy
A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
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Fate Life Man Philosophy World
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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Achievement Animal Dream Greatness Reality Time
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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Goodness Spiritual
The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
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Philosophy World

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