Action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not...This the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if that cheerfulness were already there. ---William James ----I love William James, but can't help pointing out that pulling yourself up by your boot straps can't work in every circumstance. James used to write in his journal, "Please God, give me a reason to live for the next fifteen minutes." ----Jonathan
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