Quotes About Belief

For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. As I sit here, and often times, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to. ––from The Black Cottage

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old

why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true. Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

The little fellow's afraid of the falling snow. He never saw it before. It isn't play   10 With the little fellow at all. He's running away. He wouldn't believe when his mother told him, 'Sakes, It's only weather.' He thought she didn't know!

For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.

Everything looks better at a distance. If you made it up, you have to live it down. Everything is compost. There is no they—only us. It's a mistake to believe everything you think. You can get used to anything. Sometimes things are just as bad as they seem. It helps if you always have somebody to kiss goodnight.

Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.

V??ím, že fantazie je silnÄ›jÅ¡í než vÄ›dÄ›ní. Že mýty mají vÄ›tÅ¡í moc než historie. Že sny jsou mocnÄ›jÅ¡í než skute?nost. Že nadÄ›je vždy zvítÄ›zí nad zkuÅ¡eností. Že smích je jediným lékem na zármutek. A v??ím, že láska je silnÄ›jÅ¡í než smrt.

It is not true, by the way, that mermaids do not exist. I know at least one personally. I have held her hand.

When our god fails to respond in the ways we expect, we humans tend to respond in one of two ways. We either blindly intensify our acts of worship or lash out in righteous anger.

Just because yu can't prove it doesn't mean it isn't true

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. —MARCUS AURELIUS

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

Second, you must convince yourself of the following: people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.

We happily follow Charismatics because we like to be led, particularly by people who promise adventure or prosperity. We lose ourselves in their cause, become emotionally attached to them, feel more alive by believing in them-we fall in love.