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

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

“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

“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

“The great stumbling-block is not the habit itself, it is the belief in the impossibility of overcoming it. How can a man overcome a bad habit so long as he is convinced that it is impossible? How can a man be prevented from overcoming it when he knows that he can, and is determined to do it?”
― 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

“The wise man understands and understanding, he ceases from all bitterness and accusation.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Much that is commonly called sympathy is personal affection. To love them who love us is human bias and inclination; but to love them who do not love us is divine sympathy.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“When impatience and irritability are entirely put away, are finally offered up on the altar of unselfishness, then is realised and enjoyed the blessedness of a strong, quiet, and peaceful mind.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Giving is as important a duty as getting; and he who gets all he can, and refuses to give, will at last be unable to get; for it is as much a spiritual law that we cannot get unless we give, as that we cannot give unless we get.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“The greatest blessedness comes to him, who infuses into his mind the purest and noblest thoughts.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“That which supremely differentiates the fool from the wise man is this—that the fool meets passion with passion, hatred with hatred, and returns evil for evil; whereas the wise man meets passion with peace, hatred with love, and returns good for evil.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“A man does not live until he begins to discipline himself ; he merely exists.”
― James Allen, Complete Collection

“Therefore, pursue your course bravely. Your conscience is at least your own, and to follow it is to be a man; to follow the conscience of another is to be a slave.”
― 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

“Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter.”
― 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

“That of our vices we can frame A ladder if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame,”
― James Allen, Complete 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

“strength.”
― 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