Act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. ..."

• "Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling gotogether; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
• "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. ..."

                                                                 William James

American psychologist