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Quotes About Belief

Even though it walked and talked, even though it was bigger than his house and could swallow him in one bite, the monster was still, at the end of the day, just a yew tree.
~ Patrick Ness
The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster. When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside every belief if it would save his daughters. "So?" Conor said. "So would anyone! So would everyone ! What did you expect him to do?
~ Patrick Ness
No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
~ Patrick Ness
When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?
~ Patrick Ness
It does not matter what you think, your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
~ Patrick Ness
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully.
~ Patrick Ness
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don't remember nothing, don't remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone's ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it's true, but who knows?
~ Patrick Ness
A feeling may or may not be true, but you still feel it.
~ Patrick Ness
La creencia es la mitad de la curación.
~ Patrick Ness
People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.
~ Patrick Ness
You imagine the devil, you make the devil.
~ Patrick Ness
Who is to say it is not everything else that is the dream?
~ Patrick Ness
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. (Fight it) by speaking the truth. If you speak the truth, you will be able to face whatever comes.
~ Patrick Ness
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters. Conor
~ Patrick Ness
Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." "It is a true story," the monster said. "Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
~ Patrick Ness
But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.
~ Patrick Ness
If you can't pray it away, it's not a real problem.
~ Patrick Ness
Faith is belief without proof.
~ Patrick Ness
Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so? In the fear that I always try to hide in my heart, I wonder if there is even a difference.
~ Patrick Ness
You'd have thought so, but it was just a phase, wasn't it? Nothing that churchgoing and pretending it never happened wouldn't make go away.
~ Patrick Ness
Most Gods don't care. About anything. Other than gaining dominance over other Gods and telling you how wonderful they are and demanding that you say the same. There's nothing like a bunch of Gods to show you how alone you really are.
~ Patrick Ness
I don't believe in guardian angels, just people who are there for you and people who aren't.
~ Patrick Ness
La creencia es la mitad de toda curacion
~ Patrick Ness
It does not matter what you think, the monster said, because you mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.
~ Patrick Ness