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William James2 quotes

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. — William James · 1896 We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life. — William James · 1902

William Shakespeare2 quotes

O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat? — William Shakespeare · 1595 There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare · 1616

Henri Poincare1 quote

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything. — Henri Poincare · 1905

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1878

Jean-Dominique Bauby1 quote

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face. — Jean-Dominique Bauby · 1997

John Milton1 quote

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667

Mahatma Gandhi1 quote

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1922

Publilius Syrus1 quote

No man is happy who does not think himself so. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BC