"We with our lives are like islands..." - Quote by William James
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
More by William James
“The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.”
“We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.”
“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”