William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to read more

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more

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.