James Allen Quotes
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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
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Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.
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Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
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Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
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Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
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When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
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Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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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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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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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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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
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Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
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As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
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A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. 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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He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.
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Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
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If you 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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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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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. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
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