The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
JAMES ALLENCircumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
More James Allen Quotes
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Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
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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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You will be what you will to be.
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The 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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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They who have no central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
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There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
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To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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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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He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
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They themselves are makers of themselves.
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The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
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