
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- Topic: Imagination, Possibility, Power, Thinking
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Man is a universe in little.
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
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You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.
The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
