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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.

James Allen

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
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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Heart Man One Liner Thinking
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
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
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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Believe Man
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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Destiny Direction Discover Inspirational Life Man Soul
Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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Deep Life Pain
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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Deep Habit Hide Imagination Man Secret
If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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Body Health Mind Protection Yourself
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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Deep Improvement Man Willing
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Intelligence Purpose
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
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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Himself Philosophy Thinking
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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Action Goodness Result Thoughts
There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.
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Philosophy Quality Thinking
For weakness cannot persist in a power-evolving universe.
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Deep Philosophy Power Weakness

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