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“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”

Henry James

“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”

Henry James book The Ambassadors

Source: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Context: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”

Henry James

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”

Henry James

Source: The Art of Fiction

“She is written in a foreign tongue.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James quote: “If this was love, love had been overrated.”

“If this was love, love had been overrated.”

Henry James book The Europeans

Source: The Europeans

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

Henry James

William James, "Is Life Worth Living?," The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).
Misattributed

“Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”

Henry James book The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Context: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!

“… and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

Henry James Roderick Hudson

Source: Roderick Hudson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/176/176.txt (1875), ch. I: Rowland.

“Excellence does not require perfection.”

Henry James

“When I am wicked I am in high spirits.”

Henry James book The Europeans

Source: The Europeans