You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
William JamesEach of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William JamesTo suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
William James