Quotes by James, William

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is >>

I will act as if what I do makes a difference. >>

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions. >>

Quotations about Unhappiness

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get >>

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where >>

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. >>

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William