William James
49 quotations
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.