If 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 JamesThe worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
William JamesThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
William JamesFirst... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
William JamesThe war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.
William James