James Allen

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

— James Allen

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

— James Allen

“There is but one religion, the religion of Truth.”

— James Allen

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

— James Allen

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.

— James Allen

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

— James Allen

“Self-seeking is self-destruction”

— James Allen

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

— James Allen

For true success ask yourself these four qestions:Why?Why not?Why not me?Why not now?

— James Allen

“Renew your resolution daily, and in the hour of temptation do not depart from the right path.”

— James Allen

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice…

— James Allen

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

— James Allen

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

— James Allen

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

— James Allen

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

— James Allen

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

— James Allen

“Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he…

— James Allen

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of…

— James Allen

“Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast…

— James Allen

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer…

— James Allen

The world is your kaleidoscope,and the varying combinations of colors which at every moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted…

— James Allen

The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of…

— James Allen

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of…

— James Allen

“Names, religions, personalities pass away, but the Law of Love remains. To become possessed of a knowledge of this Law, to enter…

— James Allen

“They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it "luck"; do not…

— James Allen

“Without self-discipline a man drifts lower and lower, approximating more and more nearly to the beast, until at last he grovels, a…

— James Allen

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not…

— James Allen

“Man is made and unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons which will destroy him. He also…

— James Allen

For the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a…

— James Allen

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He…

— James Allen

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of…

— James Allen

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its…

— James Allen

“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck,…

— James Allen

“How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy…

— James Allen

“In the beautiful words of Staton Kirkham Davis, 'You may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door…

— James Allen

“A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose…

— James Allen

“A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose…

— James Allen

“FREQUENTLY the man of passion is most eager to put others right; but the man of wisdom puts himself right. If one…

— James Allen

“The first meditation is the meditation of love, in which you so adjust your heart that you long for the weal and…

— James Allen

“Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial…

— James Allen