A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intell... - James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

Share this quote

More quotes by James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."
"A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition."
"Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild."
"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughtsand actions can never produce good results … We understand this law inthe natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mentaland moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating—and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it."