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William James Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Happiness, Fear, Stress

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Happiness, Music, Philosophical

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Life, Happiness, Movement

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.105, Harvard University Press

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

Happiness, Today, Tomorrow

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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.

Happiness, Attitude, Mean

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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.

Happiness, Sadness, Reality

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

Inspirational, Happiness

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

Happiness, Cheerful, Path

"Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Happiness, Laughter, Men

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.40, Xist Publishing

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

Happiness, Society, Politics

Talks to Teachers (1899) "What makes a Life Significant?"

The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

Happiness, Dream, Spiritual

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

Happiness, Pain, Routine

William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

Happiness, Contradiction, Natural

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.219, Harvard University Press

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

Happiness, Respect, Hands

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