We don't attract what we want;
we attract what we are.

unattributed
 

Napoleon Hill said, "There is a difference between wishing for a thing
and being ready to receive it."  No one is ready for a thing until
they believe they can acquire it.  Before anything can come to us,
we have to envision it and believe that it is ours.

Darren Meade
  

The principle which gives the thought the dynamic power to correlate
with its object, and therefore to master every adverse human experience,
is the law of attraction, which is another name for love.  This is an eternal
and fundamental principle inherent in all things, in every system of
philosophy, in every Religion and in every Science.  There is no getting away
from the law of love.  It is feeling that imparts vitality to thought.  Feeling
is desire and desire is love.  Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible.

Charles Haanel
      
Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it
absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke
one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction.  You
become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.

John Assaraf
  
We can do all things if we but will them.

Leon Battista Alberti
   
Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.  So when you
think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe.  That thought
magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends
the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings.  Put another way,
your feelings are communication back to you from the Universe, telling you what
frequency you are currently on.  Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

Jack Canfield
  

No person can become prosperous while he or she really expects or half expects
to remain poor, for holding the poverty thought, keeping in touch with
poverty-producing conditions, discourages prosperity.  Before one
can lift oneself he must lift his thoughts. When we shall have learned
to master our thought habits, to keep our minds open to the great
divine inflow of life force, we shall have learned the truths of
human endowment, human possibility.

from the foreword from the publishers of
Orison Swett Marden's Pushing to the Front, 1911

   

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By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release
and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light.  You determine
the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.

Gary Zukav
  

  
The Law of Attraction states that all forms of matter and energy
are attracted to that which is of a like vibration.  The implications
of this law are vast, and the law holds true for all known Universes.
"That which is like unto itself is drawn."  The thoughts we hold attract
similar thoughts and become large masses of thought called thoughtforms.
The general vibration that a person holds is representative of the balance
of their thoughts.  As we become aware or conscious of our thoughts, we
can raise our vibration by setting forth thoughts that are more in harmony
with our desires.  When our thoughts are in harmony with our highest
desires, we are filled with joy and ecstasy.  When we learn to set forth
our thoughts consciously, we are no longer victims of our own outdated
programming.  We increasingly attract thought of a higher vibration and
raise the level of thought at which we habitually vibrate."

Abraham Hicks

Whatever we think about and thank about
we bring about.

John Demartini

All power is from within and is
therefore under our control.

Robert Collier

Imagination is everything.  It is
the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

the Buddha
You create your own universe as you go along.

Winston Churchill
  

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and
sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery.
It is we who control these, and not another.

Richard Bach
  

To gain happiness, you must learn to enjoy that which you have.  It is not how much you have.  It is what we think about that which we have that produces happiness.  In building a happy, contented life, you must give happiness to others.  No one living unto him or herself will ever be contented with his or her lot.  Your happiness is reflected upon you through the service you give to others.  And the thought you give to the creation of happiness will attract a happiness-service from others.  Start creating the happiness-habit by producing happy, love-filled thoughts.  Happiness is an attribute of love; therefore, you can never be happy until you give your love to others.

Forest C. Shaklee Sr.

  

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli
 

The law of attraction is really obedient.  When you think of the things that you want,
and you focus on them with all of your intention, then the law of attraction
will give you exactly what you want, every time.  When you focus on the things you
don't want – "I don't want to be late," – the law of attraction doesn't hear that
you don't want it.  It manifests the things that you're thinking of,
and so it's going to show up over and over again.

Lisa Nichols
  

   

If you're feeling good, then you're creating a future that's on track
with your desires.  If you're feeling bad, you're creating a future
that's off track with your desires.  As you go about your day,
the law of attraction is working in every second.  Everything we think
and feel is creating our future.  If you're worried or in fear, then you're
bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.

Marci Shimoff
   
  
Nothing is too great or too good to be true.  Do not believe that we
can imagine things better than they are.  In the long run, in the
ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities
of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

Oliver Lodge
  
  

The clearly established law of thought as a force is that like creates like and
like attracts like.  The hopeful, cheerful, confident find themselves
continually growing in faith, in confident, healthy optimism, in courage; they
are also continually attracting and drawing to themselves, thus gaining as friends
and helpers those of similar qualities and possessions, and they are likewise
inspiring these qualities in others.  Courage and faith beget energy and power;
energy and power rightly directed bring success.  Such, as a rule, are
the successful people--successful simply by way of natural law.

Ralph Waldo Trine
   
Decide what you want.  Believe you can have it.  Believe you deserve it 
and believe it's possible for you.  And then close your eyes every day for
several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the
feelings of already having it.  Come out of that and focus on what you're
grateful for already, and really enjoy it.  Then go into your day and release
it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it.

Jack Canfield
   

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The Universe offers all things to all people through the law of attraction.
You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
Do you want there to be enough for you and for everyone? 
Then choose that and know, "There is abundance of all things."
"There is an unlimited supply."  "There is so much magnificence." 
Each of us has the ability to tap into that unlimited invisible supply
through our thoughts and feelings, and bring it into our experience.
So choose for You, because you're the only one who can.

Rhonda Byrne
   

   

Think as you inhale of whatever qualities you would like to possess, and believe
that you are inhaling them.  Select seven qualities--Love, Health, Wisdom,
Usefulness, Power to Do Good, Success, and Opulence will cover the average
human desires.  The very unworldly will substitute spiritual knowledge for opulence.
Fill your mind with the idea that you are drawing in these qualities with your
breaths, and exhaling all that is weak or unworthy.  After a few moments you
will be conscious of a security and peace new and uplifting.  And after a few
weeks of steady, persistent practice of these exercises, you will find life growing
more beautiful to you, and your strength will be
increased tenfold, both physically and spiritually.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
   
   

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to everyone
the reflection of our own faces. Frown at it, and it in
turn will look sourly on you; laugh at it and with it,
and it is a jolly, kind companion.

William Makepeace Thackeray
    

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist
or negative thought.  Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate
very strongly on positive thoughts.  If you think you can't do something,
you can't.  But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that
you can.  It is important that our thoughts be constantly for the best that could
happen in a situation -- for the good things we would like to see happen.

Peace Pilgrim
   
   
Start telling a better-feeling story about the things that are important to you.  Do not
write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your
experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your
own life and watch what happens.  It will feel like magic as your life begins to
transform right before yours eyes, but it is not by magic.  It is by the power of the
Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws.

Esther and Jerry Hicks
    

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it.  If you are frightened
and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you
may try to succeed.  Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts
you off from the good things of the world.  Expect victory and you make victory.

Pristine Bradley
    

   

You are so much more powerful than you give yourself credit for.
Even if it occurs subconsciously, you are fashioning your life to support
the image of who you think you are.  If you see yourself as a helpless victim,
you will attract events and scenarios to support the story of "Poor me, why
does this always happen in my life?"
It happens because you create it.  The universe is simply doing its job of
giving you what you say you want.  Maybe on the unconscious level, you
enjoy the negative attention that being a victim brings, and if you convince
the universe that you are a victim, the universe will deliver.  Isn't that a good
enough reason to change your negative, self-defeating thoughts into those that
exude power and possibility?  Let that victim role go, and start thinking of
yourself as a magnificent, powerful, and courageous being.  Then sit back and
enjoy the gifts the universe showers on you.  These new, fresh experiences
will reflect your healthy, empowered vision of yourself.

Lucinda Bassett
  
As you think, you travel.  As you love, you attract.  You are today where
your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts
take you.  You cannot escape the results of your thoughts; but you can
endure and learn, accept and be glad.  You will realize the vision of your
heart, not the idle wish.  You will gravitate toward that which you secretly
most love.  Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts;
you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.  Whatever your
present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts,
your vision--your ideal.

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