James Allen

"Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven."

"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

"None but right acts can follow right thoughts; none but a right life can follow right acts; and by living a right life all blessedness is achieved."

"The heart that sins must sorrow."

"Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: — He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass."

"The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene."

"Love and grief our hearts dividing, With our tears His feet we bathe; Constant still, in faith abiding, Life deriving from His death."

"Be not impatient in delays, But wait, as one who understands. When spirit rises and commands, The gods are ready to obey."

"The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.So you will be, what you "will" to be. Let failure find its false content, In that poor word "environment," But spirit scorns it and is free."

"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall mans basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive." Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

"Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits."

"He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it."