James Allen

As a Man Thinketh, first published in 1903, remains one of the most powerful, popular, and beloved books in the self-help movement.

The Law of Attraction is not about wishful thinking or blind optimism. It is about learning how your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and expectations shape the direction of your life before visible action takes place.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely, though less rapidly. The...

Before the global sensation As a Man Thinketh, there was From Poverty to Power (1901), James Allen‘s first and, in his view, more significant work. Unlike other books, it was written while he was still working as a journalist, and before the success of As a Man Thinketh.