Complete Collection Quotes

“But do you really mean to say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds?” I do not say that, but I say this, and know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can only affect you in so far as you allow them to do so.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“The man of virtue will bridle his tongue, and thus learn how rightly to govern the mind. He will not let his tongue run idly and foolishly, but will make his speech strong and pure, and will either talk with a purpose or remain silent.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Solitude is for the strong, or for those who are ready to become strong. When a man is becoming great, he becomes solitary. He goes in solitude to seek, and that which he seeks, he finds, for there is a Way to all knowledge, all wisdom, all truth, all power. And the Way is for ever open, but it lies through soundless solitudes and the unexplored silences of man’s being.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Turn the disadvantage to account by utilizing it for the gaining of mental and spiritual strength, and”
― James Allen, 21 Books: Complete Premium Collection

“All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It”
― James Allen, 21 Books: Complete Premium Collection

“You cannot travel within and stand still without.”
― James Allen, 21 Books: Complete Premium Collection

“Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the”
― James Allen, 21 Books: Complete Premium Collection

“Know this: — thou makest and unmakest thyself; thou standest and fallest by what thou art. Thou art a slave if thou prefer-rest to be; thou art a master if thou wilt make thyself one. Build upon thy animal desires and intellectual opinions, and thou buildest upon the sand; build upon Virtue and Holiness, and no wind nor tide shall shake thy strong abode. So shall the Unfailing Wisdom uphold thee in every emergency, and the Everlasting Arms gather thee to thy peace. "Lay up each year Thy harvest of well-doing, wealth that kings Nor thieves can take away. When all the things Thou callest thine, goods, pleasures, honours fall, Thou in thy virtue shalt survive them all.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Know, then, that when the dark night of sorrow, pain, or misfortune settles down upon your soul, and you stumble along with weary and uncertain steps, that you are merely intercepting your own personal desires between yourself and the boundless light of joy and bliss, and the dark shadow that covers you is cast by none and nothing but yourself.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“SELF–CONTROL is the last of these five principles, yet the most important. Its neglect is the cause of vast misery, innumerable failures, and tens of thousands of financial, physical, and mental wrecks. Show me the businessman who loses his temper with a customer over some trivial matter, and I will show you a man who, by that condition of mind, is doomed to failure. If all men practised even the initial stages of self-control, anger, with its consuming and destroying fire, would be unknown. The lessons of patience, purity, gentleness, kindness, and steadfastness, which are contained in the principle of self-control, are slowly learned by men, yet until they are truly learned a man’s character and success are uncertain and insecure.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

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― James Allen, Complete Collection

“morning walk is enabling him to become a consecutive thinker, and so to see life and its problems, as well as himself and his affairs, in a clearer light; and so in time he will rise early with the express purpose of preparing and harmonising his mind to meet any and every difficulty with wisdom and calm strength.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

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― James Allen, Complete Collection

“That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Let men, therefore, practice self-denial; let them conquer their animal inclinations; let them refuse to be enslaved by luxury and pleasure; let them practice virtue, and grow daily into high and ever higher virtue, until at last they grow into the Divine,”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Dispassion argues superior self-control; sublime patience is the very hall-mark of divine knowledge, and to retain an unbroken calm amid all the duties and distractions of life, marks off the man of power.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“The man of self regards the loss of his wealth, his comforts, or his life as the greatest calamities which can befall him. The man of principle looks upon these incidents as comparatively insignificant, and not to be weighed with loss of character, loss of Truth.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances. When the hour of trial comes, and he has to decide between his personal comforts and Truth, he gives up his comforts and remains firm.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Many people complain that they have broken down through over-work. In the majority of such cases the breakdown is more frequently the result of foolishly wasted energy. If you would secure health you must learn to work without friction. To become anxious or excited, or to worry over needless details is to invite a breakdown. Work, whether of brain or body, is beneficial and health-giving, and the man who can work with a steady and calm persistency, freed from all anxiety and worry, and with his mind utterly oblivious to all but the work he has in hand, will not only accomplish far more than the man who is always hurried and anxious, but he will retain his health, a boon which the other quickly forfeits.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Said the divine Gautama, the Buddha, "He who gives himself up to vanity, and does not give himself up to meditation, forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation," and he instructed his disciples in the following "Five Great Meditations":--”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“As the flower opens its petals to receive the morning light, so open your soul more and more to the glorious light of Truth.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“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.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Make pure thy heart, and thou wilt make thy life Rich, sweet, and beautiful, unmarred by strife ; Guard well thy mind, and, noble, strong, and free, Nothing shall harm, disturb or conquer thee ; For all thy foes are in thy heart and mind ; There also thy salvation thou wilt find.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“There is no lazy way to Truth. He who would stand upon the mountain’s summit must strenuously climb, and must rest only to gather strength. But if the climbing is less glorious than the cloudless summit, it is still glorious. Discipline in itself is beautiful, and the end result of discipline is sweet.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Evil is not a power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. The hater is he who has failed to do the lesson of Love correctly, and he suffers in consequence”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Every form of unhappiness springs from a wrong condition of mind. Happiness is inherent in right conditions of mind. Happiness is mental harmony, unhappiness is mental inharmony. While a man lives in wrong conditions of mind, he will live a wrong life, and will suffer continually.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Every form of unhappiness springs from a wrong condition of mind. Happiness is inherent in right conditions of mind.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Life is a series of lessons. Some are diligent in learning them, and they become pure, wise, and altogether happy. Others are negligent, and do not apply themselves. They remain impure, foolish, and unhappy.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“In the spiritual as the material, nothing is done without labor, and the higher cannot be known until the lower is fulfilled.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection