Quotes

“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.” William James

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” William James

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.” William James

“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” William James

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” William James

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” William James

“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” William James

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” William James

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” William James

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.” William James

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” William James

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” William James

“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.” William James

“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” William James

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.” William James

“One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.” William James

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.” William James

“To spend life for something which outlasts it.” William James

“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.” William James

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.” William James

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.” William James

“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” William James

“We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.” William James

“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.” William James

“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.” William James

“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.” William James

“Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.” William James

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.” William James

“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.” William James