Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Trine (American Mystic)

Ralph Waldo Trine (1866–1958) was an American New Thought writer, philosopher, and animal welfare activist. His works emphasized spirituality, self-improvement, and ethical living, influencing generations.

Born in Mount Morris, Illinois, he studied at Knox College (graduating in 1891) and later pursued history and political science at Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a journalist for the Boston Evening Transcript, influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy.

Trine’s most famous book, In Tune with the Infinite (1897,) became a cornerstone of the New Thought movement, selling millions of copies and being translated into 20 languages. Other notable works include The Greatest Thing Ever Known (1898,) Every Living Creature (1899,) In the Fire of the Heart (1906,) The Wayfarer on the Open Road (1908,) My Philosophy and My Religion (1921,) and The Power That Wins (1929.) His writings blended Buddhism, pantheism, transcendentalism, and Christian socialism.

Beyond literature, Trine was a vegetarian and animal welfare advocate, serving as director of the American Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He lived and worked on a fruit farm in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy … is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
—Ralph Waldo Trine

Thoughts are forces.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Thought, Thinking, Thoughts

A man carries his success or his failure with him … it does not depend on outside conditions.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Responsibility

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Wealth

A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Miracles

If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. … Go wash your windows.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Action

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Mistakes, Failures

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Identity

To be at one with God is to be at peace … peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one’s own soul.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Peace

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Faith

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Love

The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are, we then begin to build our own world even as God builds his.
—Ralph Waldo Trine
Topics: Discovery

Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Trine (American Mystic)

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