Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMESEvery individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMESAnything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMESNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESWe may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMES[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES