William James on anything
“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
More William James quotes
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
William JamesWilliam James The education of attention would be an education par excellence
William JamesWilliam James The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
William JamesWilliam James An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesWilliam James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
William JamesWilliam James One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
William JamesWilliam James I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William JamesWilliam James The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William JamesWilliam James That which is most personal, is most interesting.
William JamesWilliam James The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William JamesWilliam James The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William JamesWilliam James We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
William JamesWilliam James The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
William JamesWilliam James The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
William JamesWilliam James A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William JamesWilliam James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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