James Allen Mind Quotations

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more 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.

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.