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"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking."
"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."
"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."
"There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance."
"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do."
"The dreamers are the saviors of the world."
"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."
"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"
"He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought."
"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it."
"Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it."
"Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth."
"Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought."
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
"The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony."
"Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything."