The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
To change one’s life we must start immediately and do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion 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 lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. 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 mi ~ William JamesTweetShareSharePin
