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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

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
They themselves are makers of themselves.
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Destiny Inspirational Success Yourself
You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.
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Fall Inspirational Vision Yourself
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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Desire Goodness Moment Reality Yourself
So you will be what you will to be.
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Be Yourself One Liner
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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Attraction Man Philosophy
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
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Direction Philosophy Spiritual Suffering Wrong
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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Deep Improvement Man Willing
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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Deep Ideas Yourself
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Himself Secret Thinking
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
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Goodness Spiritual
The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
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Spiritual Suffering
Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
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Action Character Fate
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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Life Man Material Transformation
What you are, so is your world.
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One Liner Spiritual World Yourself
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Character Fate
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
The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.
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Accomplishment Effort Joy Life Reward
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Intelligence Purpose
The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
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Beautiful Mindset Result Wisdom
All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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Evil Spiritual
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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Himself Limitation Person
You will be what you will to be.
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One Liner Yourself
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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Himself Philosophy Thinking
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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Character Himself Man Thinking
To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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Desire Inspirational One Liner
He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
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Character Generous Poor Satisfaction

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