Believe Quote by Byron Katie

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that…

— Alice Miller

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was…

— Bertrand Russell

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I…

— Pete Holmes

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

— Mick Jagger

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized…

— Anonymous

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

— Leopold Infeld

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were…

— Ernest Hemingway

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

— Ann Brashares

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which…

— Andrew Solomon

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

— Hozier

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

— Taylor Caldwell