William James Quotes

Negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.