What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
Blind belief is dangerous.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
A belief is not true because it is useful.
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
Belief is the death of intelligence.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
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.
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.
"What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.