Thoughts are things - Ernest Holmes and Willis Kinnear

•  Some individuals are able to master them and literally become masters of their own lives. Others seem to let life overwhelm them, seem to be as lost and helpless as a small rudderless craft in a storm-swept sea. The difference can be traced to a way of thinking.
• Are you slave or master? Do you let external situatoins control you? Or do you control them? Through right well-directed patterns of thought life can become a joyous daily challenges
• We live according to the patterns of thought that we maintain.
• we can do a lot about what we think about ourselves.
• We encounter enough difficulties in everyday living without going to the trouble of creating additional ones through the negative nature of our thoughts.
• learn to look, quietly and calmly upon every false condition
• constructive action, producing health, harmony, happiness, and success
• you are a blessing to yourself, to mankind, and to the day in which you live
• Today I uncover the perfection within me
• Love harmonized my mind so that joy sings in my heart
• God makes the path ahead of you one of joy, happiness and security
• Only good comes to me and goes out from me - this is what I expect - This is what I accept as my experience
• we do have the capacity to deal with new ideas, to expand our horizon of knowledge. It is like developing stonger muscles; the more we use them, the more we will be able to use them. The more we think, the more we will be able to think.
• We may allow ourselves to catch anothers happiness, his confidence, his stability.
• you alone determine what ideas you are going to be susceptible to, and to what degree you will absorb them.
• You must constantly be on guard as to what you allow to enter your mind.
• I entertain only constructive ideas; all others I willingly discard
• What are we doing to ourselves by the way we permit ourselves to think?
• Until we step in and discipline our thinking the same old monotonous ideas will keep repeating themselves and our problems will not clear up.
• Anyone at any time can start educating his thinking in the fundamentals of good behavior. It is a simple process of thinking about what you want rather than what you dont want. Our experiences in living are the results of ideas we entertain in mind, so we all need to make our thoughts behave properly.
• One can keep busy with many things that consume time and occupy thoughts, but in the long run there is lacking that sense of satisfaction which comes only as a result of having accomplished something creative and worthwile.
• Creative activity is very vital and must be entered into just for the sheer joy of doing it.
• Creativity appears to be a neccessity for all people.
• do-it-yourself activities
• there is nothing in you or around you which can limit your constructive thought.
• With regularity the same pattern of throught keeps repeating itself with no end in sight
• the merry-go-round of our own negative thinking
• If we would only realize it, we can do with our minds just what we would do with our record player when such a thing occurs. We can change the record.
• There are many mental records we can play which are enjoyable and beneficial.
• The record of love, confidence, faith and forgiveness - we will discover we can automatically change it and play a more harmonious one
• Feat is the only thing of which to be afraid
• The lack of confidence in the good alone which should concenr you
• You know that right finally dissolves everything opposed to it.
• With joy I enter into the activities of the day, without regret I remember the events of yesterday, and with confidence I look forward to tomorrow, that today my heart is without fear.
• We attract what we think; we become what we think; we become what we thing and what we become we attract
• Living is a very personal matter. Nobody can do it for you.
• You are you. What you are and what you are to become is the result of an inner motivation which you alone have established
• As you come to understand the way your mind is creative new vistas of living will open up for you
• Awareness!
• Devote more attention to this nebulous, intangible thing we call our mind. This inner space is something that each can investigate for himself. Each person can become a scientific researcher. The equipment with which he works is his own thought. And the results of his experiments can have measurable effects in his everyday living.
• Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
• Say: I know that I am a perfect being now, living under perfect conditions today.
• Most of the difficulties we encounter in life just do not descend upon us out of "nowhere"
• Regardless of the difficulty that confronts us, the first thing we should do is to find out what we are thinking, for this is the factor controlling the way we feel and act.
• There is something in me that knows what do to
• Therefore, everything I ought to do, I shall do; anything I ought to know, I shall know.
• There is an inner, quiet flowing stream of Life that carries me surely and safely to my proper destination and accomplishment of my every good purpose.
• Regardless of age, the individual who is bored, frustrated, and ucnreative is the one who is beset with all kinds of physical problems. Then the main focus of attention becomes the physical problem and this only tends to increase the difficulty.
• A lazy mind creates a sluggish body which seldom functions properly.
• It is not the calendar, but how we think, that determines how old we are or feel.
• What ever we can do about work we dislike, we have to do to ourselves. We are the source of our own unhappiness. It is the way re react to our work, not what the work does to us. If a person cannot in some way find it possible to be happy at the work he is now doing he never will find work that can make him happy.
• We all have to work because we all have to eat, and we may as well be happy in the process. 
• it is plain nonsense to allow ourselves to be miserable more than half the time we are awake. When we can learn to like the job we are now doing, we will be able to find one we will like even more.
• Through affirmative thinking you are able to clear your mind of negative thoughts, fears, and doubts.
• All the good that you desire awaits your acceptance of it.
• I now let go of all fear, doubt, and confusion, and turn my throught and attention to the belief that only good is my experience
• Peace and happiness, joy and contentment always walk with me
• Unhappiness is a habit
• Pay particular attention to what others talk about. You'll be surprised at what you hear. Toil, trouble, headaches, and hearaches for the most part, and only a few expressions of joy, happiness, and an enthusiasm for living.
• Nobody ever thrived mentally or physically by dwelling on the negative aspects of living.
• More and more you will hear a Song of Joy singing at the center of your being. You have only to be still and listen to this Song of Life, for It is always there.
• I know that the Song of Joy, of Love and of Peace, is forever chanting Its hymn of praise and beautry at the center of my being, therefore I tune out of my mind all unhappy and negative ideas.
• I direct my thought to the sunshine of life, to brightness and laughter, to the joyous presence of radiant Spririt.
• I lay aside all anxiety, all striving, and let Divine Love operate through me into my affairs
• Joyfully I anticipate greater abundance, more success, and a deeper peace.
• Joy weels up within my mind, and Life sings Its song of exstasy in my heart.
• I am remembering only the good; I am expecting more good; I am experiencing good.
• I now accept as mine all that is needed to make my life a joyous experience.
• There is peace at the center of your being
• I see good in everything
• I know that all is well
• Therefore, today I declare that my thoughts shall only be affirmative, positive, and constructive
• I know, not only that all is well with my mind and my body - all is well with my affairs
• we are as young as we feel.
• feeling of vitality, well-being, and a continuin enjoyment of living
• positive motive for living
• Life is always active, creative, and constructive
• we have to provide ourselves with some reason to stay alive
• stop blocking the flow of Life through you
• For a doctor to tell a patient that he will have to change his way of thinking, that he will have to start thinking in an affirmative rather than egative manner, means that he will have to do some consistent constructive thinking - praying
• Prayer is a process of thinking in a certain way
• Your life is of God
• I say to my own mind: "You are to believe in this Power. You are to accept it.
• There is no other life: all the Power there is, all the Presence there is, and all the Life there is
• It is possible that you have been using the power of your mind to produce the very limitation from which you wish to extricate yourself.
• Today, realizing that my life is truly a reflection of what I think, I now permit the Spirit within me to guide and direct my thoughts and emotions
• The Divine influx refreshes me daily. I feel it flowing in and through me
• brainwork
• just the contrary appears to be true
• those engaged in intellectual pursuits actually live longer than others.
• brainwork acts as a tonic and source of vitality for the whole body
• in one way or another almost every function and activitiy of the body is in some way influenced or controlled by what we think. If we allow ourselves to become mentally sluggish, the body follows suit. If we are continually disturbed and fearful, the body starts to malfunction. If, on the other hand, our thoughts are constructively active, it is logical that the body will similarly respond
• This is a personal equation which demands what we live up to be best we have in us. And the best we have in us is an unlimited resource we but little realize, let alone use. So start to think and live longer.
• The eternal now is forever filled with the Presence of perfect Life. You always have been, and forever will remain, a complete and perfect expression of the eternal Mind
• Knowing that all experience is a play of Life upon Itself, the blossoming of Love into self-expression
• I enter into the game of living with joyful anticipation, with enthusiasm
• Today I enter into my Divine inheritance, freeing my thought from the belief that undesirable external conditions imposed upon me are necessary and unchangeable
• I declare the freedom and imbibe of the fullness Life has to offer
• Once we know what capabilities we have for causing ourselves trouble, perhaps we will be more careful as to how we use them. There is also the fact that this creative ability we have can be used for our benefit instead of our detriment. There are many wonderful things to be experienced in life. Let us learn to concentrate on pulling these out of the creative power of our thoughts.
• I am drawing into my experience today and every day an ever-increasing  measure of vitality, health, joy, and harmony
• Divinely guided, everything I think, say, and do is quickened into right actin, into productive action, into increased action.
• The harmonious action of Life now permeates every part of my being and experience.
• All the there is, is mine noe
• "a man should appreciate what his actions and goals are costing him. Then if he chooses, he may pay for them in pain and disease."
• Instead of sitting back and letting conditions, situations, and problems overwhelm us, could we not develop an attitude of mind that lets us meet them and handle them in a manner that is intelligent and emotionally mature? When we learn to meet the problems of living without sacrificing our goals or comforts, we can have our cake and eat it too, and the price is controlled thinking.
• Know that you are an individualization of the Spirit - the Source of wholeness, love, reason, and intelligence. Empty yourself of any and every thought that denies this.
• I recognize that I am a perfect being, living under perfect conditions
• I also know that Mind alone is the only thing that has any power either to act or to react.
• My recognition of this Power is sufficient to neutralize every false experience
• Definitely I know that this recognition establishes harmony in my experience, prosperity, and a sense of happiness and health.
• The future is something everyone seems to dream of, but seldom does anything about.
• The future is born out of what you are thinking today
• Your future is like a projection screen upon which are thrown the images of the thoughts you have today. It can be no better. It can be no worse. But at any time you can change that picture - change it to something definitely to your liking.
• If there is one thing that appears to have absolutely no limitations it is our capacity to think; our thoughts are free to soar to any height. But too often we allow ourselves to think just so far and no farther. We make use of our ability to think to build barriers around ourselves which we are afraid to cross.
• Today, as a child, I accept this Presence that responds to me as personal, warm, and colorful. It fills me with vitality, opens my mind to greater vistas, and imbues me with a love for all life.
• You are different from any other person who ever lived
• You are you, and you are eternal
• The resurrection of life is today. Begin to live today and all thought of death, all fear of change, will slip from you. You will step out of the tomb of uncertainty into the light of eternal day.
• I know that life shall be an eternal adventure.
• Contemplation of the immeasurable future, the path of eternal progress, the everlastingness of my own being, the on-going of my soul, the daily renewed energy and action within me
• To be creative seems to be a fundamental drive that of necessity must find an outlet in a constructive manner if one is to be a full and complete human being.
• in all that we do, in everything we undertake, we must in some way discover how we may contribute something new and constructive to our world. We need to encourage the flow from us.
• To enjoy a life that is productive of the greatest good for ourselves and others we need to express the most that we are.
• As we delve into the inner resources of our minds we will be surprised at the limitless potential that resides there. To think is Life's greatest gift to us. Why not start to use it more effectively.
• New and happier horizons of living will open up for us to the extent we learn to keep our thoughts directed in an affirmative manner.
• you get rid of that self which is impotent. You brush aside its weakness, its fears, its doubts, its misunderstandings, and its uncertainties
• "There is One Life, that Life is my Life now."
• I know that there is a Presence of Perfection at the center of my being.
• I feel the Divine Life flowing through me, animating every atom of my being.
• And I feel that everyone else is of like nature to myself - we all live, and move, and have our being in God.
• I now affirm, with complete acceptance, that the Intelligence is now leading and guiding me into the accomplishment of every good and worthwhile purpose.
• The Presence exists at the very center of my being and is flowing rhough me, establishing happiness, joy, abundance, harmonious living, and a constructive use of the creative power of my mind. I am now open to new ideas, new hopes, and new aspirations
• Instead of being masters of the situation we now appear to have become enslaved by the society and culture we have created and discover in many respects we are no longer able to keep pace with or meet the demands that it makes upon us.
• we can discover a way to grow up so that we are once more masters of our lives and do not just exist as automations and slaves in a system from which we try to escape by retreating from life.
• individually we alone are responsible for how well we can grow mentally to cope with the pressures of daily living. 
• No one else can do for us
• developing greater mental and emotional maturity
• regaining our lost freedom
• You need to awake to a new joy of living
• realize that today is a new beginning. Your world can be made new from this moment.
• Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy. Recognize that there is nothing in your past that can deny you the privilege of living happily
• There is nothing in the future that can bring anything other than joy to you. Learn to fin only the likeness of good in your daily experience. As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, you expect it to continue.
• find that every activity of my mind and body is in rythm with the one perfect Life
• Having the will to live in joy and in wholeness, I am at peace with the world about me
• It is my desire to live and to let live, to give and to forgive, and to see in every person I meet the Divine likeness
• I am lifted up into a new joy of living
• My heart sings a song of happiness and freedom
• Possibly the happiest man in the world might be the one who had just fulfilled a lifelong ambition and climbed the world's highest mountain. But then he would become a most sorrowful figure - no peace of mind, no contentment - for there would not be a higher mountain to climb
• There is a divine discontent within us. It keeps driving us on to greater goals. It is the process of reaching these goals, not the goals themselves, which provides contentment and peace of mind.
• Recognize this Divine discontent within you. It is the creative impulse which through the ages has urgend man on to evergreater achievement
• The Divine Presence is already what you are, and It contains the possibility of all joy in living. You should not entertain any thought that would limit your experience of the good life. There is nothing in you that can separate you from the Divine Presence, but in many ways you are able to inhibit Its flow through you. 
• increased joy of living and greater good in your life, is yours for the accepting.
• leading me on the pathway of joyful living
• directing my thoughts, my words, and my actions into constructive channels of self-expression
• forever uniting me with others in love, kindliness, and consideration
• I live, and move, and have my being in the infinite sea of perfect Life
• Everything necessary to my happiness is now established in Mind and does become an established fact.
• All of us seem to be burdened with an ever-increasing number of responsibilities
• our great responsibility to ourselves - that of keeping ourselves in good health.
• We need to mature so we will be enabled to do what needs to be done, and get over the attitude that we will only do what we like to do when we want to do it.
• We will always have responsibilities
• being able to fulfill them
• A life without responsibilities would be a void. The greatest of all responsibilities is to ourselves
• that of so expressing the Life within us that we fulfill Its need to expand and at the same time enable us to meet demands made upon us. It is then that we begin to grow up.
• You let your problems slip away from you, realizing that a Power greater than you are, and a Presence that is within you, is ready, willing, and able to guide you in all ways. Then peace, security, and fulfillment come with ease and there is a sense of joy and accomplishment.
• I now loose all thoughts of fear, doubt, and uncertainty, knowing that the infinite Intelligence of the Spirit within me knows what to do, how to do it, and does it with ease.
• Everything I do shall be a joy and shall prosper.
• My every encounter with others shall be a blessing for all.
• Loving, I know that I am loved
• Giving, I know that Life shall give back to me
• bringing joy and happiness into my life and the lives of those about me.
• Resting in calm faith and quiet expectancy, I know that there shall be only happiness and joy in every situation in which I find myself.
• We seem to possess a built-in sense of needing goald to be achieved, of having to experience a feeling of mental and emotional satisfaction for a worthwil undertaking well done. This cannot be attained through purposeless play and time-killing amusement. Something more is needed
• We should conscientiously educate ourselves in the use of leisure time. The endeavor need not be overserious or labored time-consuming activity. It should and must be enjoyable, but at the same time provide us with an end result of being able to give forth the best we have within us.
• there is more fun in creating than possessing
• we can squeeze out of our spare time the last full minute of constructive and creative achievement
• There is always the greater possibility available to you. There is a Divine Strength at the center of your being, ever waiting to be released, that will enable you to put more into life and living and to take more out of it.
• New ideas are coming into my mind.
• I am meeting new situations.
• I expect to accomplish and achieve.
• new horizons of joyous living continually open up before me.
• I accept the fullness of Life this moment.
• a parent finds his own mental states reflected right back to him in attitude and behavior of his offspring
• Everyone responds to you at the level of your recognition of them.
• express only love and appreciation to and for everyone I encounter ,knowing that only what I think, say, and do can return to me
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