William James Quotes

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

We tend to get what we expect.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

What we think, we become.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.

Whatever you believe, you become.

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.

EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

Reality is a projection of consciousness, so if you believe - more than just think - but believe, subliminally, that something is true, it will become true because you will make micro-decisions based on the reality that you have faith in.

Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.

... to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

As a man believes, so he will act.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.