James Allen Quotes and Other Information About the Author of As A Man Thinketh

Free books by James Allen and free James Allen quotes - one of the great New Thought authors and teachers of our time!

James Allen was 15 when his father, a businessman, was robbed and murdered. He left school to work full-time in several British manufacturing firms to help support the family. He later married Lily L. Allen and became an executive secretary for a large company. At age 38, inspired by the writings of Leo Tolstoy, he retired from employment. Allen — along with his wife and their daughter, Nohra — moved to a small cottage in Ilfracombe, Devon, England to pursue a simple life of contemplation. There he wrote for nine years, producing 19 positive thinking works including "As a Man Thinketh" and "The Path to Prosperity". He also edited and published a magazine, "The Light of Reason".

We have all of the self-help books ever written by James Allen in the form of free ebooks, which you can download and be reading in a matter of minutes:

• Above Life's Turmoil

• All These Things Added - Contains Entering The Kingdom and The Heavenly Life

• As A Man Thinketh

• Byways To Blessedness

• Eight Pillars of Prosperity

• Foundation Stones To Happiness and Success

• From Passion To Peace

• From Poverty To Power; or, The Realization of Prosperity and Peace - Contains The Path To Prosperity and The Way of Peace

• James Allen’s Book of Meditations For Every Day in the Year

• Light On Life's Difficulties

• Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance

• Men and Systems

• Morning and Evening Thoughts

• Out From The Heart

• The Life Triumphant: Mastering The Heart and Mind

• The Mastery of Destiny

• The Path of Prosperity

• The Way of Peace

• Through The Gate of Good, or Christ and Conduct

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James Allen Quotes

Some of the more famous James Allen quotes:

• To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive." Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

• Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

• He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

More James Allen quotes:

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

• The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.

• In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized. 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.

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• 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 more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

• Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.

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• 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. 

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