Quotes About Belief

We go through life mishearing and mis-seeing and misunderstanding so that the stories we tell ourselves will add up. We fill in gaps that make no sense because we want to believe something.

They can believe they've overcome or effectively compartmentalized negative events, but traumatic memory—it can become locked into the body.

It's you who chose to believe boys will be boys, especially in groups, and you who put your head in the sand. You who still choose to believe there are slutty females out to lure and entice men expressly to gain favors, and that the men are powerless in the face of free sex and those women are to blame.

two ways to be fooled, kultaseni, my little gold. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit. My job is to tell the truth, kultaseni. That is my belief with this newspaper of mine . . . that's why I started it.

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit.

You who learned from your mother that in order to keep your own reputation and family intact, sometimes a woman needs to take radical action and look the other way. It's you who chose to believe boys will be boys, especially in groups, and you who put your head in the sand. You who still choose to believe there are slutty females out to lure and entice men expressly to gain favors, and that the men are powerless in the face of free sex and those women are to blame.

here is my point of no return. My hill I will die on. But

She prefers to just return home to a sparkling-clean house and believe the house fairies have been there. That's what her mom always called the cleaning service when Daisy was little. House fairies.

There are two ways to be fooled, kultaseni, my little gold. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

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Women do not lie, my lord Dain," came a faintly accented voice from the door. "It merely seems so because they exist in another reality.

It was unsettling. For a moment he believed she could see straight through his brain. Not that there was much to see. Still, he doubted she'd feel more amiably toward him if, for instance, she could discern how vast an amount of mental space his fantasies of seduction occupied, compared to the cramped corner devoted to the problem of murdered guides and corrupt police.

I have always believed that anyone who must violate the law to achieve his purposes must lack either intelligence or imagination, probably both.

And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Uzmi sve Å¡to ti dan donosi i ne vjeruj u sutra.

I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

Religion is hard. You either see Jonah in the belly of the whale or you don't, my dark sister. It's all on the inside.

Catholic School–Induced Conscience (CSIC)

when all looks the darkest, God works his greatest miracles if you have faith.

If we have a choice between believing one of two things, both of which we have evidence for -- I'm unlovable, I'm lovable - often we choose the one that makes us feel bad. Why do we keep our radios tuned to the same static-ridden stations (the everyone's-life-is-better-than-mine, the I-can't-trust-people station, the nothing-works-out-for-me station) instead of moving the dial up or down? Change the station. Walk around the bars. Who's stopping us but ourselves?