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

James Allen

Only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.
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Control Power Soul Storm
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
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
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thoughts in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
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Direction Himself Law Philosophy Suffering Wrong
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.
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Healthy Philosophy
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
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Man Philosophy Rise Thinking
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Character Fate
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
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Himself Secret Thinking
Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
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Doubt Enemy Fear Himself Knowledge
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that the right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about the right results.
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Effort Joy Peace Result Right
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
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Choice Himself Man Right
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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Right Vision Yourself
One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
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Man Oppression Slave
They themselves are makers of themselves.
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Destiny Inspirational Success Yourself
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
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Goodness Greatness Man Power

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

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