William James

(451 votes)   Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(373 votes)   To spend life for something which outlasts it.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(353 votes)   The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(311 votes)   We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(303 votes)   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 James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(258 votes)   To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions.

William James

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(257 votes)   The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(228 votes)   The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(214 votes)   I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(211 votes)   If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(204 votes)   If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(187 votes)   The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(176 votes)   We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(175 votes)   Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(162 votes)   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
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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