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Ralph Waldo Trine Quotes


A philosopher, mystic, teacher and author of many books, and was one of the early mentors of the New Thought Movement.
(1866 - 1958)


A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.

Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.
[Love]

Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.
[Faith]

The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are, we then begin to build our own World even as God builds his.

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Thoughts are forces.

To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
[Mornings]