"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
― William James
Topic(s):
Life
More From William James
- "In business for yourself, not by yourself."
- "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
- "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."
More In Life
- "Life is half spent before we know what it is."― George Herbert
- "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."― Bertrand Russell
- "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."― Jose Ortega y Gasset