"The more rational statement is that we..." - Quote by William James

“In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.”

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

“Habit is the great flywheel of society.”

“The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.”

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.”

“It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.”

“Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.”

“If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.”