James Allen

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.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

A man is literally what he thinks.

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.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

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.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

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

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 very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.