Quotes of William James

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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

- William James

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“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ If our love isn't written in the stars, Why the very moment we truly locked eyes for the first time does one fly straight by. There's something to be said about twinsouls and meeting eye to eye, the soul ignites its fire for the very first time. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

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

- Confucius

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska