Quotes of William James

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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

- William James

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“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ 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

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

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

- Greg Behrendt

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

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

- Mother Teresa

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

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

- Walt Whitman

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki