William James Quotes.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
A winner’s attitude: it may be difficult, but it’s possible. A loser’s attitude: It may be possible, but it’s too difficult.
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
