One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William JamesThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William JamesSo 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 JamesWe have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.
William James