James Allen

Tweets from the famous British philosophical writer. Best known for his inspirational books and poetry and for being a pioneer of the self-help movement.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take upon yourself the regeneration of the world.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

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

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

As a being of power, intelligence and love, man holds the key to every situation, and make himself what he wills.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to "drift" upon the ocean of life.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Your wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with your thoughts and actions.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Men will continue to have impure and poisoned blood, so long as they propagate unclean thoughts.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

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.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

If a man's mind hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes the wheel the ox behind.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

[James Allen @JamesAllenSaid]

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.