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Life Quotes by William James
- There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
- Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it…
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every…
- For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
- There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE…
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- To spend life for something which outlasts it.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must…
- Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs…
- Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
- What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the…
- Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
- We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
- One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their…
- Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle