Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
More Quotes from William James:
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.William James
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully. and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave,act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon fold its tent like an Arab and silently steals away.
William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.
William James
Tell him to live by yes and no yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
William James
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own
William James
Truth is what works.
William James
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