James Allen Quotes

If you would protect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
JAMES ALLEN

Body Health Mind Protection Yourself
What you are, so is your world.
JAMES ALLEN

One Liner Spiritual World Yourself
For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
JAMES ALLEN

Deep Love Secret Yourself
The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.
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Accomplishment Failure Heart Man
A man’s worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN

Fate Life Man Philosophy World
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
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Deep Himself Man Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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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Achievement Animal Dream Greatness Reality Time
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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Freedom Himself Oppression Weakness
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
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
He no longer acts from self but does what is right – what is universally and eternally right.
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Act Character Right Virtue
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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Man Mental Result Suffering
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.
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Believe Man
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
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
The dream is the promise for what you will be one day.
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Dream Inspirational Promise Success
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
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.
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Improvement Man Mental
All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
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Achievement Failure Man Result
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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Death Human Inspirational Soul Willing
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
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
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Attraction Fear Love Secret Soul
He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.
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Avoid Death Poison

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