William James Quotes

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

I'm just living my life.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.

I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.