Quotes of William James

somelinesforyou_157941877671.jpg

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

- William James

Make your own quote image here

Note* For better image experience, you need to upload a desktop layout image, it means horizontal layout, not vertical layout.

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione