Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

- William James

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

- William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

- William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

- William James

There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enou…

- William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

- William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

- William James

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

- William James

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

- William James