Quotes by William James

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.””

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.””

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.””

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

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.””

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.””

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.””

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.””

“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.””

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.””