Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
JAMES ALLENMan’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
More James Allen Quotes
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The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
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Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.
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Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.
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They themselves are makers of themselves.
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What you are, so is your world.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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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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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
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He that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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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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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.
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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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He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
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