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William James Quotes about Life

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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Life, Change, Positive

"Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Life, Success, Everyday

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Life, Positive, Encouraging

William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

Inspirational, Life

William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.256, Harvard University Press

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Inspirational, Life, Hate

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Life, Work, Hands

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Life, Survival, Despair

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Life, Positive, Art

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Inspirational, Life, Moving

Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Life, Religious, Courage

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.252, Routledge

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Life, Stay Strong, Ties

William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.136, Courier Corporation

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Life, Humorous, Philosophical

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Life, Trust, Truth

William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Life, Philosophical, Fate

William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

Life, Power, Perfect

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Life, Change, Philosophical

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Life, Friendship, Littles

William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Life, Success, Character

William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.16, Courier Corporation

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Life, Success, Strong

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Life, Change, Positive

William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life, Inspiration, Purpose

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

Life, Success, Attitude

Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Life, Faith, Optimism

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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