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Appreciation
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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 delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
-James Allen
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Beauty
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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.
-James Allen
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Belief
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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
-James Allen
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Birds
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The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
-James Allen, A Kentucky Cardinal
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Bravery
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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.
-James Allen
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Chance
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
-James Allen
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Choice
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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.
-James Allen
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Concentration
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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
-James Allen
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Confidence
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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.
-James Allen
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Control
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it
-James Allen
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Desires
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
-James Allen
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Determination
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
-James Allen
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Dreams
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall 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.
-James Allen
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The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.
-James Allen
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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, and this you will become.
-James Allen, source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_lane_allen.html
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Environment
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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.
-James Allen
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Faith
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Where faith is there is courage, there is fortitude, there is steadfastness and strength... Faith bestows that sublime courage that rises superior to the troubles and disappointments of life, that acknowledges no defeat except as a step to victory; that is strong to endure, patient to wait, and energetic to struggle... Light up, then, the lamp of faith in your heart... It will lead you safely through the mists of doubt and the black darkness of despair; along the narrow, thorny ways of sickness and sorrow, and over the treacherous places of temptation and uncertainty.
-James Allen
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Fate & Destiny
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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.
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Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.
-James Allen
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Goals
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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.
-James Allen, source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_lane_allen.html
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Honesty
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
-James Allen
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Honor
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
-James Allen
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Intention
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
-James Allen
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Life
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
-James Allen
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Mind, the
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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
-James Allen
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Books by and about James Allen