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 James

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William James
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William James

American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.