A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
JAMES ALLENTo begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
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The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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You cannot travel within and stand still without.
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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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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.
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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss
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As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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What you are, so is your world.
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The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
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