How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most…

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

William James · Happiness

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

William James

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Best

William James

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Truth

William James

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Humor

William James

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Work

Related quotes