Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Category Archive: William James
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.