The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness . . . is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. . . . To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, and keeps it still fastened in the mind.William JamesThe Author of this QuoteAuthorWilliam JamesAmerican philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.