“Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.”
Source: Thoughts are Things
“Why, human thought is a real element, a real force, darting out like electricity from every man's or woman's mind, injuring or relieving, killing or curing, building fortunes or tearing them down, working for good or ill, every moment, night or day, asleep or awake, carving, moulding and shaping people's faces and making them ugly or agreeable.”
Source: Thoughts are Things
“Love yourself and feel worth it. Attend to your joy!”
“Whatever the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the world of seen and tangible things.”
Source: Thoughts are Things: Essays Selected From the White Cross Library (New Thought Edition)
“You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding
“The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.”
Source: Thoughts are Things
“Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.”
Source: Thoughts are Things & God In You
“Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.”
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“Faith is power to believe and power to see.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding
“Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding
“Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force.”
Source: Thought Forces: Essays Selected from the White Cross Library
“Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things - Secrets to the Law of Attraction
“Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.”
Source: THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY. YOUR FORCES, AND HOW TO USE THEM. VOL. VI.
“Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a different light, when we find that 'looking out for number one,' as directed by the infinite, is really looking out for number two and is indeed the only way to permanently benefit number two.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.”
“When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.”
Source: Thoughts are Things
“Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”
Source: Thoughts are Things & God In You
“To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.”
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“There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past”
“In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness”
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“The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.”
“Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.”
Source: Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)
“To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.”
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