William James

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

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

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

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.