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Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

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
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Character Fate
Self-control is strength, Right Thought is mastery, Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still.
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Control Heart Peace Power
The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.
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Act Joy Result 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
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
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Character Destiny Mind
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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Control Power Strength
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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Man Mental Result Suffering
So you will be what you will to be.
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Be Yourself One Liner
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice, he ascends.
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Choice Himself Man Right
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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Right Vision Yourself
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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Himself Secret Thinking
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
Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.
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Action Character Fate
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
Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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Destruction Himself Vice

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