Prentice Mulford Quotes

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Faith is power to believe and power to see.

Whatever the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the world of seen and tangible things.

The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it.

The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force.

When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a different light, when we find that 'looking out for number one,' as directed by the infinite, is really looking out for number two and is indeed the only way to permanently benefit number two.

To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.

Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

Love yourself and feel worth it. Attend to your joy!

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.