Self.................................

     Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.  Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean.  The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves:  it is our very self.  Man is manacled only by himself:  thought and action are the jailers of Fate - they imprison, being base;  they are also the angels of Freedom - they liberate, being noble.

-James Allen,  As A Man Thinketh