Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to value their dreams and ideals as the foundation for creating a fulfilling life.
James Allen emphasizes the importance of cherishing one's visions, ideals, and the beauty found within. He suggests that these inner treasures are the seeds from which a wonderful reality can grow, highlighting the need for commitment to one's dreams in order to manifest them into the world. By staying true to these cherished thoughts and feelings, one can ultimately shape a desirable life and environment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing passions.
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.
Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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