"Man's mind may be likened to a..." - Quote by James Allen
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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“Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.”
“Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.”
“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”
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“I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed the importance of combining both the mental and material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.”
“What do you think my brain is made for?Is it just a container for the mind?This great grey matter,Sensei replied what is your woman,Is she just a container for the child?That soft pink matter”
“Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.”
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“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.”
“Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”
“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”