William James Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• To change one's life:
  a. Start immediately
  b. B. Do it flamboyantly
  c. No exceptions
  Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

  William James

  Dream, Suffering, Habit

• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

  William James

  Life, Success, Strong

• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Hands

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

  William James

  Fear, Civilization, Class

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.334, Library of America

• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Apology, Opportunity, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

• Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

  William James

  Creating, Suffering, Built

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.16, Harvard University Press

• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

  William James

  Fall, Wind, Suffering

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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