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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.

James Allen

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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Discover Experience Man Philosophy
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Himself Secret Thinking
For weakness cannot persist in a power-evolving universe.
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Deep Philosophy Power Weakness
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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Heart Mindset Vision Yourself
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Character Fate
The “divinity that shapes our ends” is in ourselves.
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Divine End Ourselves
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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Believe Man
You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
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Fall Inspirational Vision Yourself
Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
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Body Health Virtue
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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Accomplishment Greatness Himself Inspirational Sacrifice Success
To 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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Beginning Failure Strong Success 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
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
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Body Express Mind Slave
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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Deep Direction Man
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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Himself Hurt Man Philosophy Suffering
Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
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Doubt Enemy Fear Himself Knowledge

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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