If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how…

Quote by James Allen

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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle...

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle...

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for...

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for...

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the...

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the...

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As...

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As...

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation,...

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation,...

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones...

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones...

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

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

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

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

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice...

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice...

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he...

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he...

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

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

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

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner...

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner...

As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so...

As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so...

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

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which...

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which...

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

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

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

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

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any...

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any...

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual...

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual...