Quotes About Belief

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things.

The method which I advocate is what, I believe, the advertisers call Direct Suggestion, sir, consisting as it does of driving an idea home by constant repetition. You may have had experience of the system?" "You mean they keep on telling you that some soap or other is the best, and after a bit you come under the influence and charge round the corner and buy a cake?

I don't suppose that anything you say or anything I say will make the slightest damn bit of difference. You need dynamite to dislodge an idea that has got itself firmly rooted in the public mind.

One of the rooted convictions of each member of the human race is that he or she is able without difficulty to open a door which has baffled their fellows.

It occurred to him as a passing thought that all was for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

England still firmly believes that wealth accrues to every resident of New York by some mysterious process not understandable of the Briton.

Nobody is at his best in the matter of explanations if a lady whom he knows to be possessed of a firm belief in the incurable weakness of his intellect is looking fixedly at him during the recital.

i'll go so far as to believe you own the universe

Hasta te creo dueña del universo.

Y si no das más, tan sólo encuentra lo que hay en tus manos, piensa que dar amor nunca es en vano. Sigue adelante sin mirar atrás

Y yo, materialista que no cree en el celeste cielo prometido para ningún humano, para este perro o para todo perro creo en el cielo, sí, creo en un cielo donde yo no entraré, pero él me espera ondulando su cola de abanico para que yo al llegar tenga amistades.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

Sve što možeš da zamisliš je stvarno.

experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When

Sometimes all you need is a sprinkle of magic.

What shows up in our lives is a direct reflection of our inner thoughts and emotions.

It's right underneath your fingers, baby. That's all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness." —NEVILLE GODDARD, BARBADIAN AUTHOR AND MYSTIC

So instead of asking the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" perhaps the better question is "Why do good people think bad things can even happen?" Bad is nothing but a judgment call, a judgment call we're not qualified to make. Just like American Idol hasn't requested your services next to JLo and Keith Urban, you aren't qualified to judge what is good and bad.

Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing." —A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." —THOMAS MERTON, CHRISTIAN MYSTIC

The way I see it, there are just two things we need to know: The universe has our back. Everything is going to turn out okay.

His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things.