Believing Quotes
1583 quotes by 1153 authors
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The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you…
— Sarah Dessen
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought…
— Byron Katie
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Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never…
— Betty Smith
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly…
— Ken Follett
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
— Lawrence Durrell
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It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows…
— Leif Enger
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All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know…
— Erica Jong
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I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they…
— Natsuo Kirino
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Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.
— Peter Cameron
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And he believed because loving her meant believing. It meant trusting. And it meant life. It meant Kell Kreiger was no longer alone
— Lora Leigh
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Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.…
— Chuck Klosterman
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no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said.…
— Jennifer Crusie
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He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd…
— Daniel Defoe
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Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of…
— Joss Whedon
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Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,…
— Terry Pratchett
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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
— Nelson Mandela
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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist.…
— Dennis Lehane
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Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.
— Cameron Dokey
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The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I…
— Northrop Frye
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