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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen

Love, Power, Made

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything, Face, Rule

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake

Travel, Mind, Artist

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Experience, Mind, Find

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono

Positive, Anger, Angry

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Arthur Schopenhauer

Money, Win, Try

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Desires, Submission

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Death, Himself

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Great, Nothing

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Art, Keep, Chance

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats

Mind, Nothing, Means

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone

Negative, Attitudes, Internal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal

Future, Past, Find

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Woolf

Eyes, Others, Prisons

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson

Give, Against, Himself

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Courage, Death

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse

Words, Different, After

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Sivananda

Life, Good, Bad

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander Pope

Brain, Rise, Hidden

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone

Control, Emotions, Direct

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman

Why, Walk, Large

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
Mattie Stepanek

Hope, Future, Past

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert

Faith, Power, Positive

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry, Almost, Surprise

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
Lil' Kim

Life, Family, Great

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll

Life, Thinking, Living

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

Wise, Eggs, Basket

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Strength, Alone, Two

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas, Present, Harvest

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