He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
JAMES ALLENThe 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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All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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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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Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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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 “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
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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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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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Every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.
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The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.
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Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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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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No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
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Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.
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Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
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Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.
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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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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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He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
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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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Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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