James, William

"The deepest satisfactions of the soul come from creating new meaning and new value."

"Nothing in this world is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

"The pluralistic universe is open at its edges and fluid in its composition."

"A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him."

"The unfolding of our nature is precisely the work of experience; the sifting out of it, the accumulation of it."

"There is a voice within which speaks and says 'this is the real me.'"

"We live forward, but we understand backwards."

"The most immense human gift is the power to choose to believe."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

"Patience comes from a deep reservoir of confidence in the inevitable arrival of our good."

"The greatest principle of psychology is the law of association of ideas."

"To a man with an ear for music, nothing within the four walls of his chamber is lonely."

"The deepest secret of life is that all that is worth doing is done for its own sake."

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."

"The moral equivalent of war is found in industry, business, and the conquest of nature."

"Progress happens when something goes wrong and you try to fix it."

"The facts of life are not of our choosing; but what we make of them is."

"The deepest principle of being is not substance but activity."

"To the questions of life we respond not by the intellect alone, but by the whole nature of man."

"The greatest achievement in knowledge is the knowledge of the limits of knowledge."

"In my own experience I have known a great many great men, and none of them were ashamed of their emotions."

"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the joy."

"The most intense fires burn out the quickest."

"Individuality is the measure of civilization."

"There is nothing more practical than a good theory."

"Our view of the world is conditioned by habits of attention which we have developed."

"The greatest of all powers is the power to face suffering without being overcome by it."

"The ability to recover from difficulty is the true sign of human strength."