William James Quotes about Self Love

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says, This is the real me!

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

William James

Real, Voice, Self Love

Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.

William James

Teacher, Teaching, Self Love

William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.24, Courier Corporation