Quotes About Belief

what I live for I can seldom believe in

you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

The sun sets in the cold without friends Without reproaches after all it has done for us It goes down believing in nothing When it has gone I hear the stream running after it It has brought its flute it is a long way

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin, from "Wild Oats," The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.