William James Quotes

Never underestimate your own capacity to care.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.