In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.