Quotes About Belief

let go of the limiting stories you've told yourself about who you are so that you aren't trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you've been telling yourself about your life.

Our notion of the future can be just as powerful a roadblock to change as our notion of the past.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility.

Often, though, people carry around the belief that the majority of their problems are circumstantial or situational—which is to say, external. And if the problems are caused by everyone and everything else, by stuff out there, why should they bother to change themselves?

If, however, your childhood ruptures didn't come with loving repairs, it will take some practice for you to tolerate the ruptures, to stop believing that every rupture signals the end, and to trust that even if a relationship doesn't work out, you will survive that rupture too.

She believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim now lives on a higher plane. Why else are flowers so beautiful? she says to me. why is the sky such a perfect shade of blue? There has to be more than the here and now.

Based upon my experience with losing my left mind, I whole-heartedly believe that the feeling of deep inner peace is neurological circuitry located in our right brain.

The release comes when first you realize you are indeed hopelessly inadequate, and then you realize for this you have God! You can't; He can! You are inadequate; He isn't. How

She could stand to think that life's experiences, good and bad, died with the body, but she couldn't bear to believe that the dreams vanished too, those exquisite flights of reverie that never actually happened. All those experiences you can have for free. How could they burn and turn to ash? She would disappear one day, too, both her flesh and the woman she dreamed herself to be.

And just because she was crossing her fingers didn't mean her wish would come true.

If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.

because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true.

So if there was a Santa Claus, what would you ask him for?" he asked. You, she nearly said. She'd want him for Christmas and no take backs.

I've got this.

Pretend you still believe I'm that superhero

Don't worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real.

You put your heart and soul into whatever you do. I'd bet my last dollar on you any day of the week, Rebel." With that shocking statement, he turned and walked off. And Tae absolutely did not watch his ass as he did.

So matter of fact. So confident. Not cocky, just very sure of his abilities. She wondered what that utter lack of self doubt was like. She'd sure like to know.

what we believe affects how we behave—and how we behave dictates our reality.

Finally, there's the often disregarded but equally important psychological age. Age can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe affects your behavior, and how you behave affects your reality.

Simply put: once you accept you're old—you become old. Your

For more than four hundred years we nurtured the belief (should that, perhaps, be faith?) that evidence-based investigation meeting scientific standards of rigor would reveal the true mechanism of nature. and yet when the mechanisms of nature were revealed to be quantum mechanisms, the worlds of science and philosophy were set on a collision course. instead of truth and comprehension, we got deeply unsettling questions about what we can ever hope to know about the world.

Wrong teaching–specifically religious doctrines–nullifies the power of the Word of God and makes it of no effect.