"As long as there are postmen, life..." - Quote by William James
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
More by William James
“To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.”
“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.”
“Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.”
More on Life
“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”
“I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit”
“Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.”
More on Happiness
“We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.”
“Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.”
“I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.”