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Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

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James Allen
Age: 47 †
Born: 1864
Born: November 28
Died: 1912
Died: January 24
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Leicester
England
Thought
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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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The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.
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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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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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The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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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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A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.
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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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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
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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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Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
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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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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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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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If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
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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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Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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