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“To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.”

“A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.”

“Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.”

“Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.”

“The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.”

“Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.”

“Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.”

“You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.”

“Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.”

“No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.”

“A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”

“Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.”

“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”