“A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”
— James Allen
Half Awake
- William JamesHarvard professor, Father of American Psychology, New Age Thought pioneer
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources. … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum. … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will. Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”
— William James
You Will Rise
“You will rise, and you will fall,
You will get discouraged, you will become encouraged,
But always you will be progressing,
Always,
And so you must simply stick to it
And the day will come
When you will no longer say
‘I hope, I desire, I pray,’
But you will say
‘I know.’”
— Earnest Holmes, from “Love and Law”
I must say, this is one of my favorite quotes.