Thought is another name for fate - by Henry Van Dyke

Your thoughts become words.
Your words become actions.
Your actions become habits.
Your habits become character.
Your character becomes your destiny.

As Earl Nightingale said: "We become what we think about all day long.", or as Buddha so plainly put: "We think. We become.". To say your thoughts are important is clearly an understatement, as thoughts are modeling clay you mold yourself by. 

 I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait, 
For love brings love and hate brings hate. 

~ by Henry Van Dyke ~