I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man’s pride. ~ William James 

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds ~ William James 

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~ William James 

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. ~ William James 

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ~ William James 

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it. ~ William James 

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. ~ William James 

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~ William James 

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed. ~ William James 

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. ~ William James