“Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

— Christian D. Larson

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), p. 107

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Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books 1874–1962

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