Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
William James

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James

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.
William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James