The calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.
JAMES ALLENDoubt 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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Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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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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Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.
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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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A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.
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Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
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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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Only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.
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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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All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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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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Every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.
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