As A Man Thinketh

From James Allen's As A Man Thinketh

"That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practiced self control and self purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to remedy the defects in his character, and makes swift and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes"