"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task" ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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 ♥26SharePinTweet0 SharesSuccess
"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 ♥16SharePinTweet1 SharesInspirational Quotes
"Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." ~ William James ♥30SharePinTweet1 SharesHappiness
"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." ~ William James ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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 ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"If you can change your mind, you can change your life." ~ William James ♥23SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"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 ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." ~ William James ♥23SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths." ~ William James ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." ~ William James ♥28SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact." ~ William James ♥28SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" [T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902" ~ William James ♥27SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?" ~ William James ♥27SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits." ~ William James ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." ~ William James ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them." ~ William James ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
