As A Man Thinketh (Annotated with Biography about James Allen)

by James Allen

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

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

Men will continue to have impure and poisoned blood, so long as they propagate unclean thoughts.