Quotes About Belief

Yes, everything will be all right, thanks to Elinor! She could have sung and danced (not that she was much of a dancer and she was sitting in a car).

It seems only yesterday I used to believe There was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. Billy Collins, "On Turning Ten" A

What nonsense! I just like to believe in fairy tales.

well, who says that all gods are kindly? Most of them are stern and cruel, wouldn't you agree?

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built

Read - and be curious. And if somebody says to you: Things are this way. You can´t change it. - don´t believe a word.

Wir zählen sie nicht<<, gab der Gardist zurück. >>Wir nemen jeden Anschlag als Beweis für die Grö?e unseres Königs.<< Das war auch eine Art, es zu sehen.

It is hard to have secrets one cannot share, or to believe in a truth that others don't want to see.

But you're too ready to believe what you want to believe, that's your trouble.

I'd believe any story at all just so long as it's well told.

Il punto è che credi troppo volentieri a ciò che vuoi credere.

Children are the best cure for Santa sadness, he thought. And Santas are good for sad children. So …

Io non credo fondamentalmente a nessuno, ormai dovresti saperlo. Siamo tutti bugiardi quando serve.

Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all this darkness? Where did he keep getting new hope from, after he had been disappointed countless times?

It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than happiness.

Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was light in all the darkness?

You just have to make a hero believe you're on the side of what's right and just, and he'll go trotting after you like a lamb to the slaughter.

She still believed in words so much. Farid believed in other things: his knife, in courage and cunning. And friendship.

He's going to serve you up to the Adderhead on a platter made of ink. Resist it! It's not a pleasant feeling to read the words that guide your actions. No one knows that better than I do, but they didn't come true for me either. They only have as much power as you give them.

If only it wasn't so difficult. It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.

think that the tragedy of human existence is our world is run by people who are really good at kidding themselves, like your father. Your dad manages to kid himself that he's rich and powerful because he's the cream and has risen to the top. But he's not stupid. He knows he's kidding himself. So underneath that top layer of bullshit is another, more aware belief system: the belief that everyone else would kid themselves the same way he does, if they had the chance.

Look, there are as many walkaway philosophies as there are walkaways, but mine is, 'the stories you tell come true.' If you believe everyone is untrustworthy, you'll build that into your systems so that even the best people have to act like the worst people to get anything done. If you assume people are okay, you live a much happier life.

Uništio sam mu to uvjerenje. Bilo je lažno, naravno, ali održavalo ga je na životu. Vidjevši ga onako jadnog i slomljenog, zapitao sam se je li bolje biti svjestan i o?ajan ili živjeti u raju za budale.

My point of view is fallacious!