Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
JAMES ALLENSuffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
More James Allen Quotes
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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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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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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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A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
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The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
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As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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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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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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A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
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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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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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The dream is the promise for what you will be one day.
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The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
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