James Allen Quotes

#1. That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practised self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So

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#2. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of
heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.

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#3. The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles - Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.

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#4. The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.

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#5. There is but one religion, the religion of Truth.

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#6. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

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#7. The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

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#11. There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

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#12. They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

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#13. Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

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#14. It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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#15. He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

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#16. Would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

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#17. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

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#18. So you will be... What you 'will' to be

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#19. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

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#20. As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.

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#21. The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

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#22. You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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#23. Things you might hear,
Things you wanna believe,
Things that aren't true,
Things that people say,
It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

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#24. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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#25. A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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#26. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The

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#27. Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

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#28. There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

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#29. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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#30. The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

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#31. 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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#32. The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.

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#33. IF YOU WOULD PROTECT YOUR BODY, GUARD YOUR MIND.

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#34. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean.

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#35. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

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#36. Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

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#37. 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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#38. What you are, so is your world.

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#39. You must get outside yourself, and must begin to examine and understand yourself.

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#40. A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

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#41. Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

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#42. 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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#43. Chapter 2: Thought Waves and Their Process of Reproduction

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#44. You will be what you will to be.

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#45. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

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#46. Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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#47. 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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#48. No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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#49. Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.

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#50. you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.

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#51. 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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#52. Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

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#53. Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and
material things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of
circumstance.

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#54. As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

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#55. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;" for

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#59. Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.

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#60. No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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#61. Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

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#62. Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

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#63. 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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#64. Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness. Men

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#65. The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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#66. And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.

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#67. He who masters the small becomes the rightful possessor of the great.

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#68. Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.

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#69. Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

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#70. As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.

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#71. Having conceived of his purpose, a
man should mentally mark out a
straight pathway to its achievement,
looking neither to the right
or to the left, but straight.

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#72. Thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

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#73. He who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.

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#74. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

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#75. To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.

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#76. Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

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#77. Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort,the diadem of thought.By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends.By the aid of animality,indolence,impurity,corruption,and confusion of thought a man descends.

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#78. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

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#79. Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

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#80. Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and you can find every truth connected with your being, if you will dig deep into the mine of your soul.

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#81. Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

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#82. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience.

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#83. As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

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#84. Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his "household.

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#85. Humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt only the wise man, only he whose thoughts

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#86. There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

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#87. Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

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#88. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

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#89. Renew your resolution daily, and in the hour of temptation do not depart from the right path.

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#90. The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

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#91. Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

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#92. The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves;

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#93. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

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#94. And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.

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#95. All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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#96. We don't get what we wish and pray for, we get what we justly earn. Our wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with our thoughts and actions.

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#97. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

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#98. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

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#99. Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

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#100. Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

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