"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."
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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."
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"It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel."
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"He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it."
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"The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed."
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"The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny."
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"The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it."
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"The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot."
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"No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself."
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"Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts."
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"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are."
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"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
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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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"As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is 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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"As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them."
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"And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality."
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"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."
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"All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts."
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"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."
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