William James

"True philosophy must take the deepest account of human experience."

"Mortality and finitude are essential to human meaning."

"The focus of your life is determined by how you use your attention."

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"Experience in its raw form is flux and change."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"Does consciousness exist? I say yes. Can we locate it? That is the real puzzle."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about your thoughts."

"The moral equivalent of war must be something heroic that appeals to ideals of honor and courage."

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

"The only things that Evolution has provided us are means; the only thing of real interest is the end."

"Talent alone is not enough. You need freedom, passion, and obsessive attention to detail for success."

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The principle of habit is so useful for good that we should be eternally grateful for this gift."

"A decision is a losing option which had to be overcome."

"The only way out is through. Acceptance leads to understanding."

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling are the depths of life."

"The stream of thought flows on; but the feelings are the stream itself, not something parallel to it."

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

"A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind."

"The art of being wise is in knowing what to overlook and what to emphasize."

"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct."