What holds attention determines action.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

The strenuous life tastes better

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.