You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
William JamesReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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