Beliefs Quotes
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"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"
"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
"If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs)."
"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."
"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."
"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
"All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion."
"If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about."
"God’s word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action."
"Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist."
"Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing."
"Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence."
"We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins."
"We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)"
"It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment."
"The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell."
"Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults."
"I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in."
"The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe."
"I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays."
"Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard."
"Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty."
"Faith requires following the power of a whisper."
"Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison."
"Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own."
"People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world."
"Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life."
"It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title."
"Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?"
"To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important."
"Trust comes from courage; beliefs are derived from fear."
"Some people think driving is speeding the car. Only to find out. Driving is not speeding the car but is being able to control the car."
"Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'"."
"The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it."
"Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone."
"Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices."
"Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today."
"It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover."
"When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'."
"Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others."
"Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity."
"Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion."
"The language of light can only be decoded by the heart."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?"
"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
"God is only as strong as your belief in him."
"Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'."
"If you are open to life’s lessons and do not feed on beliefs and prejudices, you are like a blank sheet of paper on which God writes his messages to you in holy ink."
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