 If such conduct doesn't make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear. Again, in order to feel kindly...  Scribner's Magazine - Էջ 479խմբագրել է - 1899Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William James - 1899 - 328 էջ
...round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that...Whitall Smith, I find this lesson on almost every page. Act faithfully, and you really have faith, no matter how cold and even how dubious you may feel. "... | |
 | 1899 - 356 էջ
...an early issue we shall give our readers a review of the book itself. MELANGE. To Be Cheerful. — The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our...folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away. — From " The Gospel of Relaxation." by Prof. William James, in the April Scribner's. Missouri State... | |
 | 1901 - 690 էջ
...round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were really there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that...folds its tent like an Arab, and silently steals away. ... A Viennese neurologist of considerable reputation has recently written about the liinnenI in a.... | |
 | 1901 - 548 էջ
...it, and keeps it still fastened in the mind : whereas, if we act as if from some better feeling, ihe old bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away. — William James. [JANUARY, 1901. PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN SCHOOLS. By С E. BADDELEY,... | |
 | Patterson Du Bois - 1903 - 344 էջ
...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear. Again, in order to feel kindly towards a person to whom we have been inimical, the only way...feelings go, and pay no regard to them whatever." Professor James then quotes Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, in substance, "Act faithfully, and you really... | |
 | Eustace Miles - 1904 - 642 էջ
...deliberately to smile, to make sympathetic inquiries, and to force ourselves to say genial things. ... To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention...its tent like an Arab, and silently steals. away.' . . . Act faithfully, and you really have faith, no matter how cold and even how dubious you may feel.... | |
 | Aaron Martin Crane - 1905 - 382 էջ
...bad feeling only pins our attention to it, and keeps it still potent in the mind; whereas, if we act from some better feeling, the old bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away."1 1 James is right in what he says about " wrestling," and the reader will note that the dominant... | |
 | Alexander Bryce - 1910 - 496 էջ
...to say genial things. One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of hearts than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling...its tent like an Arab, and silently steals away." PRACTICAL SUMMARY. 1. Cheerfulness, hopefulness of mind, and placidity of temper can be cultivated... | |
 | William James - 1911 - 90 էջ
...round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that...Christian's Secret of a Happy Life," by Mrs. Hannah Whithall Smith, I find this lesson on almost every page. Ad faithfully, and you really have faith,... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1917 - 608 էջ
...or less deliberately to smile, to make sympathetic inquiries, and to force ourselves to say general things. One hearty laugh together will bring enemies...folds its tent like an Arab, and silently steals away. Abridged : The sovereign path to cheerfulness is to act and speak as if it were already possest —... | |
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