Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. - Dale Carnegie
An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric. - William James
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! - William James
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. - William James
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile. - William James
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. - William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. - William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. - William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. - William James
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. - William James
If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white. - William James
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient. - William James
In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing. - William James
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