We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James Quotes
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
As a rule we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use.
Believe that you possess significant reserves of health, energy, and endurance, and your belief will create the fact. 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 the fact.
We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of their 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 the habit of using and moving […]
