Quotes About Belief

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Philippa Gregory

I have to retain the illusion of things happening, I have to make Henry feel more and more intensely loved, I have to give him the belief that things are getting better and better because he is a king and all his life everyone has told him that he shall have the very best. He has been promised cream and gold and honey, I cannot give him 'wait.' How am I to keep going? How am I to do it?

D'you think I can't write this and get someone-a drunk married to a fool -to swear to it? Do you think I can't sey up as historian? As storyteller? D'you think I can't write a history which years from now everyone will believe as the truth? I am the king. Who shall write the record of my reign if not me? 'You can say anything you like' I say levelly. 'Of course you can. You're King of England. But it doesn't make it true.

He is a very cautious man, and he believes wholeheartedly in nothing.

The thought of a king who can determine not only what life his people lead but even the nature of the God they worship makes me shiver.

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You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. —DR. PHIL MCGRAW

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.

In fact, those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be, believing they ought to be, or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards. So in earnest are they that being in earnest is the act. For certain self-aware people, however, this is not possible: to imagine themselves being themselves, living their own real, authentic, or genuine life, has for them all the aspects of a hallucination.

Ah, snug lie those that slumber beneath conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever, and cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver in the draft from an open mind. Born nakedly to shiver in the draft of an open mind.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

Non era stato lui lo sconfitto, ma la giustizia: quella umana almeno, perchè in quella divina credeva e sperava fermamente. E lo disse al giudice: Vedrà,signor giudice! Quello che non ha potuto fare la legge, lo farà un'altra mano!

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote.

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.

It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.

It is the untrustworthy man who distrusts others, because he judges them by himself.

Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil. -The Last Days of Socrates

He was a wise man who invented God.