Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
~ William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
Time itself comes in drops.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
Truth is what works.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
