Quotes About Belief

We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

Kendi yasama ihanet etmeden bu tasalar? nas?l hakl? görebilirdim? GirdiÄŸiniz ç?kmazlar?n önemine nas?l inanabilirdim? Size gerçekten inand?kça, o güçsüz ve kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸ sözlerinizden, o miskin davran??lar?n?zdan, o budalaca kuÅŸkular?n?zdan daha fazla bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunuza tamamen inand?kça, size nas?l inanabilirdim?

Grenzt hier ein Wort an mich, so lass ich's grenzen. Liegt Böhmen noch am Meer, glaub ich den Meeren wieder. Und glaub ich noch ans Meer, so hoffe ich auf Land. Bin ich's, so ist's ein jeder, der ist soviel wie ich. Ich will nichts mehr für mich. Ich will zugrunde gehen. Zugrund - das heisst zum Meer, dort find ich Böhmen wieder. Zugrund gerichtet, wach ich ruhig auf. Von Grund auf weiss ich jetzt, und ich bin unverloren.

And I don't believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it "a day will come." And one day it will come. Well, probably it won't come, since they've always destroyed it for us…. It won't come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can't believe in it anymore then I can't write anymore either.

The ages of muscle and miracle — of fists and faith — are passing away.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live." 

Most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.

Grier had decided long ago that the key was to make expectation

Inglath Cooper

Do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

We make an idol of our fear and that idol we call God.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say -Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown

Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.

I believe a human being carries his or her own holiness, which lies within the realm of the earth; there are no otherworldly explanations.

Al borde de la vida el miedo nos hace crear una imagen salvadora y esa imagen es lo que llamamos Dios

Por qué, al menos, no me es posible matar a Dios en mi interior? ¿Por qué prefiere vivir en mí de una forma tan dolorosa y humillante, puesto que yo le maldigo y desearía expulsarlo de mi corazón? ¿Sabes? Estoy a punto de llegar a una conclusión... Creo que Dios es una especie de realidad engañosa, de la cual los hombres como yo no podemos desprendernos

Tyla. PasitikÄ—jimas vienas kitu.

First, the future event must already exist in some way we do not understand. Second, if it exists, then it is part of some kind of hidden psychic agenda. The third factor requires that some function of human consciousness be able to link into this plan to perceive it. If we try to be psychic, and at the same time believe that a future planned agenda does not already exist in some form, then, of course, we are going to shoot ourselves in our psychic feet.

Indeed, most people are culturally discouraged from making their own reality treks into reality constructing.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.