Quotes of William James

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

- William James

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“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Eyes not only see but reveal secrets that hidden within our very soul, as You and I stroll in this world in search for our true and better selves." Morco ”

- Jeff Morco

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

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

- Nelson Mandela

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin