James Allen - Mind is Ruler

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From his famous little book As a Man Thinketh:

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. . . .

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

A man will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and
other people, things and other people will alter towards him. . . . Let
a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the
rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. . . .
The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very
self. . . . All that a man achieves or fails to achieve is the direct result
of his own thoughts. ... A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve
by lifting up his thoughts. He remains weak and abject and miserable
by refusing to lift up his thoughts. . . .