Book · 1903
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
James Allen opened "As a Man Thinketh" with the biblical aphorism: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." He took this not as moral instruction but as a statement of natural law. Your character — the totality of who you are — is the complete sum of all your thoughts. "A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his tho…