To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMESTo consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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 JAMESYou can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMESIn the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMES[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMESHuman beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMESWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMESWith no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
WILLIAM JAMESA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESEach of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES