Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.


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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length...
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his att...
WILLIAM JAMES
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great...
WILLIAM JAMES
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
WILLIAM JAMES
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squ...
WILLIAM JAMES
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you...
WILLIAM JAMES
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to b...
WILLIAM JAMES
The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already t...
WILLIAM JAMES
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and in...
WILLIAM JAMES
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.
WILLIAM JAMES
Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the ...
WILLIAM JAMES
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William Jame...
WILLIAM JAMES
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible
WILLIAM JAMES
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is pur...
WILLIAM JAMES
No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES
Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
WILLIAM JAMES