Prentice Mulford > Quotes

“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....Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things & the Real and the Unreal: The Collected New Thought Wisdom of Prentice Mulford and Charles Fillmore

“to say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

“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”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

“Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

“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.”
― Prentice Mulford, Your Forces and How to Use Them: The Complete Six Volume Collection

“Every thought of yours is a real thing—a force”
― Prentice Mulford, Thought Forces

“To learn to forget is as necessary and useful as to learn to remember. We think of many things every day which it would be more profitable not to think of at all. To be able to forget is to be able to drive away the unseen force (thought) which is injuring us, and change it for a force (or order of thought) to benefit us.”
― Prentice Mulford, Your Forces and How to Use Them: The Complete Six Volume Collection

“Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

“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.”
― Prentice Mulford

“Why, human thought is a real element, a real force, darting out like electricity from every man's or woman's mind, injuring or relieving, killing or curing, building fortunes or tearing them down, working for good or ill, every moment, night or day, asleep or awake, carving, moulding and shaping people's faces and making them ugly or agreeable.”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

“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.”
― Prentice Mulford

“But no one experience should be followed and dwelt in forever. Life in its more perfected state will be full of alterations–not a rut, into which if you are once set you must continually travel.”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things

“The worst intemperance of to‑day is that coming of hurry or impatience, or the desire and attempt to crowd the doing of so many things in an hour or a day. The hurried, impatient mood in which you may tie your shoe‑strings, or put on your clothing, in the morning, you may carry into every act during the day.”
― Prentice Mulford, Your Forces and How to Use Them: The Complete Six Volume Collection

“Power and happiness mean the same thing. Power means ability to drive off every thing that troubles you. Power means ability to keep your mind in the mood or frame of happiness. When that power is gained, and you rule your mood and do not allow the mood to rule you, every thing on the material plane of life will shape itself and come to you in accordance with your mood.”
― Prentice Mulford, Your Forces and How to Use Them: The Complete Six Volume Collection

“Well, such a thing may be, though I cannot now see it” you remove a great barrier to the carrying out and realization by yourself of the new and strange possibilities in store for you.”
― Prentice Mulford, Thoughts are Things

“Sleeplessness comes of the difficulty of the spirit to bring itself to a centre and collect its forces. Insanity comes of the total inability of the spirit to focus its thoughts. The permanent cure for sleeplessness must commence in the daytime. You must drill your mind to put its whole thought on the act you are now doing. If you tie your shoe, think shoe and nothing else.”
― Prentice Mulford, Your Forces and How to Use Them: The Complete Six Volume Collection