Quotes of William James

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What every genuine philosopher craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"!

- William James

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“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Love is like a gold mine, The deeper you dig in your heart, the more love you receive. ”

- Bzam

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ 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

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Our children will be counted, and justice will be served. Our babies deserve a fair chance at life. We are our children’s groundbreakers; therefore, we cannot give up. We might run out of breath but we must have the willpower when moving forward to fight for our children’s voices to be heard. Bullying is not accepted ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ 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

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

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

- Pablo Picasso

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid