Quotes About Beliefs

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

In general, Quakers did not give gifts, as material possessions should not be given heightened status.

We listen to the stories that people believe have shaped their lives. We listen to the stories people choose to tell, and the meaning they make of those stories.

Your private logic is shaped both by who you innately were when you were born and who you became through your family environment.

As long as I stay with my values, something valuable happens.

Disneyland is a text through which we can look back and reexperience the hopes and fears, the beliefs and illusions, of a postwar generation in the throes of creating the place we know as suburban Southern California.

A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs.

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

practice of female members dancing themselves into a frenzied, almost orgasmic hysteria. The juxtaposition of this with what were otherwise very conservative beliefs and rituals was bizarre to him. Dan wondered what rock-and-roll music and the Shaker sect had in common.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. —Mahatma Gandhi

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others' heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

This chapter argues for civilized disdain, an alternative to political correctness that is more authentic and more attuned to what we really feel toward worldviews that we do not approve of on moral or intellectual grounds. The difference between civilized disdain and political correctness is that the former allows one to feel disdain for a person's or group's views or beliefs while maintaining respect for the human beings that hold them.

She had probably been too intense, always trying to shake sense into whomever, then bewildered when, instead of revising their beliefs or being galvanized into action, they simply chose to be friends with someone else.

The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.

Adopting a vegan diet brings your choices and actions in line with those same beliefs that underlie a commitment to resisting regressive politics: generosity, compassion, and a commitment to justice and fairness. By acting in a way that reflects your values and what you believe, you relieve the cognitive dissonance that can make stress and depression worse.

A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no "they lived happily ever after," but it's more like "they worked happily ever after.

Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.

You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind. As you read, think about where you'd like to go and which mindset will take you there.

Estas creencias pueden ser conscientes o inconscientes, pero influyen en lo que deseamos y determinan en gran parte si lo conseguimos o no.