Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
WJ
William James'Is Life Worth Living?', The Will to Believe (1897)
About William James
American philosopher and psychologist, author of The Principles of Psychology. (1842-1910)
More from William James
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.Letter to Helen Keller (1908)
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 22
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
- Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.Letter to Carl Stumpf (1886)
- Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.Quoted in Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James (1935)
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 22
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- Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.Walt Whitman
- I exist as I am, that is enough.Walt Whitman
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.Emily Dickinson
- In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.Virginia Woolf
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.Virginia Woolf
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