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You are what you think is a concept that has been advocated throughout history. It is said that not only can man be defined by his thoughts, but can shape his own future by selectively controlling them. This theory has been mentioned in the Christian bible, the words of Buddha and in ancient philosophy. In more recent times, the theory is extensively utilised by personal development practitioners.

Advocates through History
563-483 BC "What we think, we become" - Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), Indian philosopher and founder of Buddhism

484 BC "The destiny of man is in his own soul" - Herodotus, Ancient Greek historian

BC ‘As a man thinks so is he’ - The Bible, Book of Proverbs 23:07

121-180 AD "Our life is what our thoughts make of it" - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher

1803-1882 "A man's what he thinks about all day long" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, author, poet, and philosopher.

1849–1925 "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Lane Allen, author

1902 James Allen published As a Man Thinketh

1957 "You are what you think about" - Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

1960-2006 "Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts" - Anthony Robbins