James Allen

“So you will be...  What you 'will' to be”

“In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.”

“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.”

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”

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

“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.”

“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”

“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible andmaterial things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment ofcircumstance.”

“In the beautiful words of Staton Kirkham Davis, 'You may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself before an audience — the pen still behind your ear, the ink-stains on you fingers — and then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration. You may be driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city — bucolic and open-mouthed; shall wander under the intrepid guidance of a spirit into the studio of the master, and after a time he shall say, 'I have nothing more to teach you.' And now you have become the master, who did so recently dream of great things while driving sheep. You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take upon yourself the regeneration of the world.”

“A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a beautiful world waits to be realized.”

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

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

“The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds, and prays that God will bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. That which ye sow, ye reap.”

“The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.”

“No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.”

“A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”

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

“Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.”

“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.”

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”

“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”

“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.”

“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.”

“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”

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

“To Desire is to Obtain to Aspire is to Achieve”

“The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going”

“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

“Hoy estás donde tus pensamientos te han traído; mañana estarás donde tus pensamientos te lleven.”

“От всички красиви истини, отнасящи се до душата, които са преоткрити и върнати към живот в наше време, няма по-радваща и изпълнена с божествено обещание и увереност от тази, че ти си господар на мислите си и създател на характера си, че ти твориш и оформяш условията, средата и съдбата.”

“Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.”

“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.”

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

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be”

“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. ”

“The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ”

“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ”

“Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also creates the tools with which he will build for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peach. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master. ”

“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.”

“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughtsand actions can never produce good results … We understand this law inthe natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mentaland moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating—and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.”

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ”

“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.”