James Allen - Circumstances Quotes

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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

James Allen

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

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

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The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

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Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

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Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

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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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