The woman who desires to reduce her flesh cannot do so by reading occult literature, or joining mystic circles, or attending lectures, unless she permeates herself so thoroughly with spiritual truths that she no longer craves six courses at dinner, and three meals a day, and unless she overcomes her dislike for exercise.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library]
We have only to look at the children of the rich, to see how little enduring happiness money gives, and how seldom great advantages result in great characters. The majority of the really great people of the world, in all lines of achievement, have sprung from poverty.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library]
“I am all goodness, love, truth, mercy, health. I am a necessary part of God’s universe. I am a divine soul, and only good can come through me or to me. God made me, and He could make nothing but goodness and purity and worth. I am the reflection of all His qualities.” This is the “new” religion; yet it is older than the universe. It is God’s own thought put into practical form.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library]
A “Christian” of that order ought to be put under restraint, and not allowed to associate with mankind. He carries a moral malaria with him, which poisons the air. He suggests evil to minds which have not thought it. He is a dangerous hypnotist, while pretending to be a disciple of Christ.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library]
Real sorrow, the sorrow which comes from the death of dear ones, or some great cross well borne, you need not forget. But think of these things as sent to enrich your nature, and to make you more human and sympathetic. You are missing them if you permit yourself instead to grow melancholy and irritable.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
If every life seems at times “unsatisfactory” and “inadequate” it is only due to the cry of the immortal soul longing for larger opportunities and fewer limitations.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
Analyze your own abilities and find what you are best fitted to do. Then get about the task of doing your chosen work to the very best of your ability, and do not for an instant doubt your own capabilities.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought [Amazon, Bookshop, Internet Archive]
Let the spirit assert itself and demand health and hope and happiness in this new year.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought
Do not tell me it is too late to be successful or happy. Do not tell me you are sick or broken in spirit, the spirit cannot be sick or broken, because it is of God.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought
The young men of France are studying alchemy, hoping to learn the secret of the transmutation of gold. If you will study your own spirit and its limitless powers, you will gain a greater secret than any alchemist ever held; a secret which shall give you whatever you desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought
