Quotes About Belief

you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

jaded , adj . In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.

I'm sorry, he says. I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.

traverse , v. You started to cry, and I quickly said, No -- I mean this part is over. We have to get to the next part. And you said, I'm not sure we can. Without even having to think about it, I replied, Of course we can. How can you be so sure? you asked. And I said, I'm sure. Isn't that enough?

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

I hope suffering don't exist.

Like most of Salinger's characters, she wouldn't be such a fuckup, you felt, if these fucked-up things didn't keep happening to her. ... We believe in the wrong things, I wrote, using the same pen Boomer had used on his arm. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

better , adj. and adv. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better.

In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right. We don't think that anymore.

It is always the ones who believe that are hurt the worst when things go wrong.

I am a firm believer in serendipity - all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

He's not doing it to hurt me. I have to believe that. He's doing it to make himself happy which just happens to hurt me.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.