Quotes
Quotes - James
The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.
And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,--
That star of life's tremulous ocean.
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
