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 take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
William JamesIf 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 JamesA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William JamesCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William JamesThe further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.
William James