Quotes About Belief

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Nothing destroys a livable life more completely than unfounded hope

McGahern's voice came in: 'I am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything

Tarde o temprano será preciso renunciar a lo que tenemos por lo que creemos.

All people lie, in their writing as much as in their lives. It frustrates me that I hold on to an unrealistic belief: there is some irrefutable truth in each mind, and the truth is told without concealment or distortion in a letter or in a journal entry.

We become prisoners of our own beliefs, with no one free to escape such a fate, and this, my dearest friend, is the only democracy offered by the world.

There was the advantage in believing I was old already because it released me from having to be young. There was the possibility of death, which allowed one to bypass digressions into a life that had to be lived in detail. Pritchett called Turgenev's pessimism absolute. The absoluteness -- whether it is pessimism or optimism or fatalism -- is the most effective defense against what haunts one.

Half the game is 90% mental.

Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.

Three mantras you should never say: (1) I don't know. (2) I'm not ready. (3) I can't do it. W

He discounted the value of his own efforts, and seemed to feel that anyone would have done the same.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

My religion is to trust myself.

The truth is an accepted lie.

otherwise you will always be running. Have trust and faith to guide you like a torch piercing darkness. Do not believe and do not deny, but find out for yourself – for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience.

And when we cannot fully understand the significance of something, when we cannot validate the total experience with the senses – can't see, can't taste, can't smell, can't touch, can't hear, and cannot conceive – we are left with a choice: to deny or to believe.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.

You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.

Since I embraced the Gospel, with many of my brethren, I have been broken up and compelled to leave my home five times, yet we live as a people, and are as comfortable and as well off as our neighbors who do not belong to the Church; and I do not know that our enemies hate us any more than they hate each other.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.