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"Our LIFE is what our THOUGHTS make it." -Marcus Aurelius

THOUGHTS 10 BUILD ON BY

M. R. KOPMEYER

America's Success Counselor To Millions

This is a book of THOUGHTS to build your LIFE on. It is a unique book ... 80 entirely different and unrelated chapters . . . each providing about 10 minutes of stimulating and rewarding reading . . . each starting your own thoughts on a positive course of immediately useful and profitable ideas ... so that you thus may build your life as you want it. It is the purpose of this book to stimulate constructive thoughts, to give your thoughts improved direction and greater substance, to provide the kind of motivational thinking which will enable you to deal successfully with people and problems.

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Introduction

THOUGHTS ... The Building Blocks of Life This is a book of THOUGHTS TO BUILD ON. Why? Because with our THOUGHTS we build our personalities, our characters, our lives. Our THOUGHTS determine what we are and what we will be throughout the future. AU great religions, all great philosophies, aU great thinkers, all great achievers, affirm that we actually are the materialization of our THOUGHTS. The Bible says, "As a man THINKETH, so is

he. " Buddha taught, "All (yes, all) that we are is the result of what we have THOUGHT." Wrote the great emperor and philosopher of ancient Rome, Marcus Aurelius, "Our LIFE is what our THOUGHTS make it." Eighteen centuries later, the eminent psychologist-philosopher William James, reaffirmed, "Belief (confident THOUGHT) creates the actual fact." The American educator, Amos Bronson Alcott, taught, "THOUGHT means LIFE, since those who do not i

THINK do not live in any high or real sense. THINKING MAKES THE MAN." So we learn from these great sources of wisdom throughout the ages that our THOUGHTS build our lives and in a very real sense our THOUGHTS ARE OUR LIVES. THOUGHTS are the building blocks of our lives and thoughts build upon themselves, for as George Sala wrote, "Thought engenders thought . . . the more you think, the better you will express yourself." THOUGHTS are the building blocks of PERSONAL POWER. Emerson states categorically, "THOUGHTS rule the world." Clergyman William Ellery Channing wrote, "Secret study, silent THOUGHT, is the mightiest agent in human affairs. What a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward THOUGHT." Henrich Heine, the much-quoted German poet, tumed to concise prose to make it clear that, "The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of THOUGHT." And back to Emerson, who deeply believed in the power-force of THOUGHT, "There is no THOUGHT in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. Jonathan Edwards emphasized it, "The ideas and images (THOUGHTS) in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them." ii

Then, in addition to providing the building blocks of life, and in addition to being the root-source of personal power we find that it is THOUGHT by which we attain pel'sonalsuccess. The world-famous, preacher-psychologistwriter, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale says, «THINK success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish. When the mental picture (THOUGHT) or attitude is strongly enough held, it actually seems to control conditions and circumstances." Dr. Walter Scott, famous psychologist and president of Northwestern University taught, «Success or failure in business is caused more by mental (THOUGHT) attitudes than by mental capacities." Disraeli, «Nurture your mind with great THOUGHTS; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." And clergyman John William Teal,