Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
William JamesThe sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
William JamesIn its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
William James