The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
Philosophy is “an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
Belief creates the actual fact.
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.
Psychology is the science of mental life.
A stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world.” WJ., p. 554.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
Cara untuk menjadi bijaksana adalah tahu apa yang harus dimaafkan.
It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.