Quote

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Steps
Consequences
Happened
Adversity
Happiness
Overcoming
Freedom
Acceptance
Firsts
Consequence
First
Step
Elderly
Motivational
Misfortune
Accepting
Misfortunes

More quotes by William James

Image
Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.
William James
Image
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
William James
Image
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
William James
Image
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
Image
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
William James
Image
Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
William James
Image
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James
Image
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
William James
Image
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
William James
Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
William James
Image
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
William James
Image
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
William James
Image
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James
Image
As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
William James
Image
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
William James
Image
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
William James
Image
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
William James
Image
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James
Image
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
William James
Image
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James