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The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that you are strong enough to take life face on. Eating disorders, on any level, are a crutch. They are also an addiction and illness, but there is no question at all that they are quite simply a way of avoiding the banal, daily, itchy pain of life. Eating disorders provide a little drama, they feed into the desire for constant excitement, everything becomes life-or-death, everything is terribly grand and crashing, very Sturm and Drang. And they are distracting. You don't have to think about any of the nasty minutiae of the real world, you don't get caught up in that awful boring thing called regular life, with its bills and its breakups and its dishes and laundry and groceries and arguments over whose turn it is to change the litter box and bedtimes and bad sex and all that, because you are having a real drama, not a sitcom but a GRAND EPIC, all by yourself, and why would you bother with those foolish mortals when you could spend hours and hours with the mirror, when you are having the most interesting sado-machistic affair with your own image?
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.
— Thomas Paine
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.
— Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector
If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
— Hugh Prather, I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me
You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
— Elizabeth Bear, New Amsterdam
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
— Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
To quote Gandhi yet again, "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.
— Jeff Yeager, The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means
A lot of people don't believe in curses.A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.
— Louis Sachar, Holes
Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
— Niels Bohr
A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito
— Nobuhiro Watsuki
What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?
— Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago
You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.
— Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.
— Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
— Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
— Michael Faraday
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.
— Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for thesethings, which were originally intended as pointers, were nowbeing taken as descriptions.He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage pointsto the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
— Anthony de Mello
People act what they truly believe.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
— Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
I personally believe this: We have only today
—  yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
— Anonymous, The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari - Arabic-English
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher  Nolan
Belief traps or frees us.
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything and anything. Seek not proof, but take pleasure in your choice of belief. Wipe that superior sneer of your face and try smiling (if only inwardly) at the people/institutions/beliefs that you've waged your personal war against. Wouldn't it be more fun if you didn't run around quite so hard trying to be an individual, or fighting to prove or uphold your chosen belief-system?
— Phil Hine, Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation
In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.
— Michelle Sagara West, The Broken Crown
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
— Albert Camus
Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.
— R.C. Sproul, Lifeviews: Make a Christian Impact on Culture and Society
I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.
— Steve Nash
The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
Lots of people like rainbows. Children make wishes on them, artists paint them, dreamers chase them, but the Aquarian is ahead of everybody. He lives on one. What's more, he's taken it apart and examined it, piece by piece, color by color, and he still believes in it. It isn't easy to believe in something after you know what it's really like, but the Aquarian is essentially a realist, even though his address is tomorrow, with a wild-blue-yonder zip code.
— Linda Goodman, Linda Goodman's Sun Signs
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.
— Stanisław Lem, Solaris
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
I think maybe miracles are something everybody has to find out about for themselves. Telling them about it doesn’t make them believe. It just makes them think you’re crazy as a bessie bug.
— Jenny Wingfield, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.
— John Stuart Mill
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
— Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)
— Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The last thing I heard before falling asleep was, "Everything is okay now."No matter how much I wanted to believe Stellan, I knew he was terribly wrong.
— Markelle Grabo, The Elf Girl
That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.
— C.L.  Allen, I Am Become Zombie
Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.
— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.
— A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of 
— T.C. Boyle
If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don’t really believe it.
— Toni Sorenson
In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.
— Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.
— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
— A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
When others in doubt, your strong belief steers.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
— A.J. Ayer
What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.
— François Jacob
To believe, man needs no full reasoning.Without reasoning, it turns into myophia.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if they are mistaken, they will never discover it; they have condemned themselves to perpetual error. Human beings (including myself) sometimes use their beliefs for wish-fulfillment. Too often we believe what we want to be true.
— David L. Wolfe, Epistemology: The Justification Of Belief
We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.
— Ron Rash, Serena
...trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.
— Ian Rankin, Knots and Crosses
It's not about right belief
—  it's about right practice.
By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential factor is that they are taken for granted: a person's primitive beliefs represent the basic truths he holds about physical reality, social reality, and himself and his own nature. Like all beliefs, conscious or unconscious, they have a personal aspect: they are rooted in the individual's experience and in the evidence of his senses. Like all beliefs, they also have a social aspect: with regard to every belief a person forms, he also forms some notion of how many other people have the experience and the knowledge necessary to share it with him, and of how close the agreement is among this group. Unlike other beliefs, however, primitive beliefs are normally not open to discussion or controversy. Either they do not come up in conversation because everyone shares them and everyone takes them for granted, or, if they do come up, they are virtually unassailable by outside forces. The criterion of social support is totally rejected; it is as if the individual said: "Nobody else could possibly know or have experienced what I have." Or, to quote a popular refrain: "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." A person's primitive beliefs thus lie at the very core of his total system of beliefs, and they represent the subsystem in which he has the heaviest emotional commitment.
— Milton Rokeach, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study
He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in the romantic history of Alexander, the Conqueror of Emathia was said to have found in the vale of Jordan snakes 'with collars of real emeralds growing on their backs.' There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and 'by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe' the monster could be thrown into a magical sleep and slain. According to the great alchemist, Pierre de Boniface, the diamond rendered a man invisible, and the agate of India made him eloquent. The cornelian appeased anger, and the hyacinth provoked sleep, and the amethyst drove away the fumes of wine. The garnet cast out demons, and the hydropicus deprived the moon of her color. The selenite waxed and waned with the moon, and the meloceus, that discovers thieves, could be affected only by the blood of kids. Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison. The bezoar, that was found in the heart of the Arabian deer, was a charm that could cure the plague. In the nests of Arabian birds was the aspirates, that, according to Democritus, kept the wearer from any danger by fire.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.
— Stephen Richards
You don't need an army always to win battlesFew Warriors are enough to win ......
— Adil Adam Memon
You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you’re sure to receive.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.
— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more so than all the educated and contrived answers of adulthood.
— Frances A. Washburn, The Sacred White Turkey
Hierarchy and discipline gave shape to the world;that was what he had always believed.Life was made easy by adherence toa rigid structure.But maybe that only really worked when you were at the top of the ladder,when you were doing well.The further down the rungs you went,the more of a victim of circumstances you became and the less it mattered whether or not you were in control.
— James Lovegrove, The Age of Ra
The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
— W.B. Yeats
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
— Victor Hugo
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing did not require belief. It was not a feeling of horror in one's bones, or a misty outline, or anything that needed to be given actuality by an act of faith. It was as solid as a wardrobe. You don't have to believe in wardrobes. They are there, with corners. (The Troll)
— T.H. White, Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
And the kids?""Quincy, nothing. All she wants to do is look for Saturn's rings and bring home every creature from the pound. Nelson, though, he's..." She looked at Nicholas. "He's like you. Gifted, but ignorant."Nicholas bristled, "I'm not ignorant.""You are about magic.""That's because I don't believe in magic.""Nicholas," She stopped, hands on hips, waiting until he turned around. "You're haunted. You see the dead. How can you not believe in magic?
— Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path
Skepticism precludes one from believing many things, but not from loving many things.
— Marty Rubin
Demons do exist
—  you believe them into existence
One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales.
— Marty Rubin
Forgiveness... a secret garden where Joy and miracles abound, and the garden is always open to everyone who makes the Loving choice to visit there.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Fear banged at the door; Love answered,and discovered the disturbance had gone.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Anger is Always built upon a foundation of fear and suffering.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Be with someone that makes you happy... STRIKE THAT...Be Someone that makes you happy.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
In having compassion for another's Spiritual blindness, I can learn to Forgive myself.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.” —Richard David BachThe caterpillar believes it is dying because it's being sealed in a tomb. The Master knows that the caterpillar is not dying, and is simply transitioning (to something more). This points out that things are never over, that change is carrying us, (so often kicking and screaming), to higher states of being.I find it interesting that the caterpillar spends it's caterpillar existence crawling, (on a lone weed in the midst of an endless beautiful forest), surviving on bitter, poisonous leaves. Yet resists the changes to come.After the caterpillars "death"... And upon the butterflie's rebirth... The butterfly lives out it's butterfly existence experiencing all of the forest's wonders, being carried by the wind, landing on beauty, and drinking sweet nectar, all the while, being shielded from harm by the caterpillar's bitter and poisonous experiences of eating the weeds.Without the struggles of the caterpillar, the butterfly could never be.It is Truly wonderful how something as simple as caterpillars and butterflies can be such amazing reminders sent to us by a Loving Eternal Creator.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." Pain is what the world brings on us, suffering is what we do to ourselves emotionally and Spiritually.Most Spiritual teachings tell us (in one form or another) to "Give thanks in ALL things" nothing is left out when the word ALL is used. So ALL would definitely include pain. Whenever we do not give thanks in ALL things, on some level, we will Spiritually suffer. So give Thanks for the pain and avoid the suffering.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Why would I want to believe this? I am a human being having a spiritual experience.When I could Choose to Live this;I AM a Spiritual being having a human experience.By True Faith, living and embracing the latter, There can be no fear, no worry. Existing as a Spiritual Being there is Truly nothing in this world that can harm me. For I AM Eternal, absent beginning or end.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Shortly after I started hitting some notable milestones on my Spiritual journey, I went into a thrift store that benefits veterans, My eyes were quickly drawn to a dusty and tattered image of Christ laying mixed in with some other things on a shelf. I picked it up, And on it was written these words:"If you accept it...I would give you the gift of seeing yourself as I see you..."The truth and love of that image and simple words stopped me in my tracks and opened my heart. Since then I have received a wonderful gift, to know myself as an Eternal Spiritual Being, a Child of our Loving Father in Heaven....And no I didn't buy it, I received the message loud and clear, So I left it there, in hopes that the image and words would speak to someone else's Soul in the same way they had spoken to mine.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
In the darkest of places, even the slightest glimmer of Light shines as the Sun.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
When I carried the world entire upon my shoulders, so much of me was painfully dedicated to "fixing" myself, till finally I invited Christ into my Life and discovered that I had never been "broken" at all. EVERYTHING I thought was lacking in myself He had long ago made Whole.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I find my greatest Power when I am Kind.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Fear is like the Devil, both grudgingly reveal their ultimately futile ability to halt our Spiritual Growth, and keep us from our Eternal home, as we progress ever nearer to our Perfected Loving Creator.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
God does Love Us and does meet the needs of each and every one of us through Attending Angels. Those Angelic deeds are most often accomplished through the Human Connection. The Human Connection being other Persons who Kindly journey closely with us acting as God's Hands: many for just moments and some for decades. We each have a multitude of opportunities in this Life to literally act as God's Hands (as His Angels) in the Lifting Up of our Fellow Beings. I find myself most Grateful in this Knowledge.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
You can, and you will. If you're going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.
— Akiroq Brost
If I must have regrets, I Pray that all of them are for fearlessly jumping in with both feet, rather than for having never sampled the water at all.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
No-one knows enough to righteously say something is impossible.“With God ALL things are possible.”Now tell me, what does that leave out?
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Sometimes the Lord must bring the bodylow before Raising the Spirit ever higher.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
We must not decide how anyone else should or shouldn't be Living.Whenever I'm about to use the word "should" I use the word "could" instead. Should is judgemental, could is empowering.Try it out on yourself with the things that you talk to yourself about...I should do better. or I could do better.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Life without Gratitude, is like trying to drown your sorrows by teaching them to swim.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Giving Thanks leads to a desire to forgive, and forgiveness speaks of pure surrender and acceptance of the things that have happened in our lives, with that accomplished we can experience the Peace and Joy of true Forgiveness, Not only for others but for ourselves also.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
My Mom often said... Every minute spent with Mr. wrong is a minute that can't be spent with Mr. Right.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I'm Thankful in the knowledge that Each of us are making choices according to the best light we have. That there is never reason for embarrassment, humiliation, regret. This Life we live is here for us to make mistakes and learn from them and Spiritually grow. Imagining a person that has never made mistakes is like staring at an unworkable stone.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
If Ever You Feel Down, Remember, 100Trillion Cells Make Up Your Body and ALL each of them cares About is You.Our body is made up of about100,000 Billions of cells (100 Trillion)... all living working and sacrificing themselves completely for the exclusive benefit, well-being, and survival of the whole (which is you). We are each of us a universe unto ourselves.To put 100 Trillion in perspective...Jeremy Harper counted from one to one million in about 3 months. He did NOTHING but count, eat, and sleep (minimal). During this time; he didn't leave his home nor even shave. And that's only one MILLION, so if you ignore the fact that pronunciation takes much, much longer on ever larger numbers (more than a minute each), counting to 100 Trillion would take more than 25 Million years.It's awe inspiring to think that 100 Trillion cells (worlds) are counting ON me also, my decisions determine (to a large degree) whether they are allowed to continue living and experiencing in this life or not.Knowing all of this, who could realistically say that there are no miracles. We each have over 100 Trillion miracles working FOR us and depending ON us each and every second of every day.So when praying, I must always keep in mind that each word is in behalf of 100 Trillion worlds.OUR Father Who Art in Heaven...
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
A mothers Love is as deep and powerful as any ocean, in the depths of it forgiveness forever is found for her wandering child.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
She wasn't the perfect mom. However, she was the perfect Mother for me.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Everything I am longing for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of my abundance - will surely be mine... when I am prepared to receive ALL with an open and Thankful heart.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
There have been times in Life when my light has been extinguished and the smoldering embers of it were blown back into flame by another. I give deepest Thanks to all that have rekindled my light.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I have a sure knowledge that Thanks are the highest form of thought, and that true gratitude brings unbounded happiness doubled by miracles.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
If ever there was a dwelling worthy of the Creator, it would be... in a truly Thankful heart.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Know that EVERYTHING in Life has purpose. There are no accidents, no coincidences, EVERY moment is a blessing given for our Spiritual benefit and learning.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
The most difficult experience one might ever have, is to grieve the loss of a Loved-one who is still alive.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I speak of the power of trying, because I have fallen and struggled to stand. I speak of generosity because I battle selfishness. I speak of joy because I have known sorrow. I speak of faith because I almost lost mine, and know what it is to be broken, in need of redemption. I speak of Thanks because I am grateful for the totality of this Life... not just the easy parts.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
I feel that 'Thank you' is about the best prayer that anyone could say. A sincere prayer of Thanks expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging that helpis a very important part of understanding...and is also the importance of saying... THANK YOU.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Depression is the feeling that everythingis a waste of time.Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
We can, each of us, be likened to houses made entirely of colorfully stained-glass. They sparkle and shine when the sun is on them, however when the darkness sets in, their greatest beauty is revealed only by a Light from within.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
When I pass-away (as each of us must) release a balloon into the sky with ashes attached, to celebrate my graduation... My graduation from this life to the next.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude can change a modest meal into a feast, a humble house into a loving home, a stranger into a caring friend.
— Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.
— Linda Elder Richard Paul, The Thinker’s Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation
Some of us manage to think bigger, brighter, deeper thoughts. Some of these thoughts already shape the kind of research we do. Some of them will prove to be right, and our understanding of our home will deepen. Our home, one day, will be less of a mystery to us.
— Tarun Betala
When what you believe, intend, feel and act comes in alignment ‘Magic’ happens!
— Harrish Sairaman
All belief is a form of voluntary madness.
— Marty Rubin
It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL
— G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6: Civil War II
I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.
— Anthony  Ryan, The Waking Fire
I've often had to stand on the firm ground of my convictions when others thought I ought to be doing differently.
— Anne Mateer, Playing by Heart
I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
— Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.
— Criss Jami
What the wise man knows he questions but what the fool believes he sees.
— Jason Versey
Polly?' Said Wazzer. 'Yes?''You don't believe in The Duchess, do you? I mean the real Duchess, not your inn.'Polly looked into the small, pinched, intense face. 'Well I mean, they say she's dead, and I prayed to her when I was small, but since you asked I don't exactly, um, believe as-' She gabbled.'She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder.'In the silence of the wood, Polly turned. 'I can't see her,' she said.'I am happy for you,' said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.'But I didn't see anything,' said Polly.'No,' said Wazzer. 'But you turned around.
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who knows that God is all does all things because of God, no matter what!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life Believing you don't have a choice is a choice.
— Scott Stabile
Believing can mean something a good deal less than certainty. I believe the bus will come in five minutes, but I can’t be sure. Or sometimes it can mean the kind of knowledge which is acquired after scrupulous review of evidence to build up a cumulative case for some conviction. But believing [as Scripture presents it] is not half-certainty, nor the fruit of mental effort. It’s belief in the deep, strong sense of giving allegiance to something which overwhelms us. To believe in the Lord Jesus…is to do far more than simply give him a passing nod with the mind or even to honor him with our religious devotion. It’s the astonished business of being so overthrown by his reality, so mastered by his sheer presence, so judged by him, that we can do nothing other than acknowledge that he is supremely real, supremely true. To believe in him is to confess him—to affirm with mind and will and heart that he fills all things, that our only hope lies in his name. ¶ Belief in this sense concerns the entire shape of a personal life. It embraces the whole of us. It’s not one department of our life, something in which we engage alongside all the other things we do—working, loving, hoping, creating, worrying, and so on. Believing is about the way in which we dispose the world of our existence. We believe when we’re totally shaped by something outside of us, acknowledging that it has put a decisive stamp on all that we are and all that we do. This is why belief in this deep, strong sense defines us completely: We’re “believers,” doing all that we do out of the inescapable conviction that the Lord Jesus is the persistent factor in the whole of our life. Believing in him, confessing him, involves no less than everything.
— John Webster
Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.
— John Webster
I don't believe in love. I love.
— Marty Rubin
Believing is for Santa Claus, right? It's for Tooth Fairies. It's for your boyfriend when he says he's never met anyone like you and wants to feel you up. That's believing. It's for little kids. Belief. You believe in God?
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Doubt Factory
Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to block out the things that don’t make sense, that which frightens us. It narrows our vision so that the world does not feel so large. Would it comfort you to have the frame of superstition? To believe that if you say the right words and sacrifice the right things, then your world will stay exactly as it is? Or do you wish to choose what you believe, what you trust and understand?
— Cora Carmack, Roar
The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.
— Jason Versey
Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego.
— Kemi Sogunle
Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that ‘they are mine...they are mine’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Are you willing to forgo your salvation for a cause which seems righteous?
— Joan Ambu
What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.
— Walter C. Lagner
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
— J. Krishnamurti
Well, when you wonder something," said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more then we want to disprove them. We want to believe.
— V.E. Schwab, Vicious
Civilisations realise their moronic beliefs.But never condemn them.
— Talees Rizvi
There is, however, a strong empirical reasonwhy we should cultivate thoughts that cannever be proved. It is that they are known tobe useful. Man positively needs general ideasand convictions that will give a meaning tohis life an d enable him to find a place forhimself in the universe. He can stand the mostincredible hardships when he is convinced thatthey make sense; he is crushed when, on topof all his misfortunes, he has to admit that heis taking part in a "tale told by an idiot.
— C.G.Jung
What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?
— Criss Jami
When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!
— W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight
These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive rebellion is. The slaughter after the Golden Calf was worshiped. The thousands who died. The firestorm that burned the outer rim of camp when the foreigners among us incited a riot. They take for granted the miraculous water that feeds this multitude. They have eaten the manna every day of their lives and do not see the utter strangeness of it. They have not felt the desperation of thirst or the hopelessness of hunger. All they do is complain,
— Connilyn Cossette, Wings of the Wind
Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call "delusions". Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.
— Abhijit Naskar
For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Deadmen Walking: A Deadman's Cross Novel
thought for the day.. we are only as strong and safe as the elements we allow into our inner circle rather than the belief of isolation, as a solution, which is foolish...LT
— levi paul taylor
It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?
— Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
— Lynda Barry, What It Is
She glanced at me brieflyI looked at her longingly,so she believed Finally relieved.
— Sumrit Shahi, Just Friends
These mental and physical components of self­ belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the per­sonal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.
— Jeffrey Fry
Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.
— Richie Norton
If you truly believe in something, that is, if you care enough about it to not just dream about it, but to do something about it, your belief will bring it to you.
— Cory Groshek, Breaking Away
Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.
— Fred Van Lente, Ivar, Timewalker, Volume 3: Ending History
If you don't believe in transcendent experience, you haven't been to the right concert, you know, you haven't used the right drugs, you haven't had sex with the right partner.
— Bart Campolo, Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great
— Sunday Adelaja
There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so.""You are not encouraging me. Aren't You omnipotent?""Hardly," Harmony said, smiling. "But I believe that parts of me could be.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning
If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even such a person as myself, even poor Parkis, into being his saints, ready with borrowed fanaticism to destroy love wherever we find it.
— Graham Greene
For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
The vitality of the act was entirely obfuscated, the beauty, the terror, the sacrifice.' He took one last drag of this cigarette and put it out. 'Quite simply,' he said, 'we didn't believe. And belief was the one condition which was absolutely necessary. Belief, and absolute surrender.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.
— Josh Dun
Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Whatever you believe is true is true even if it is not true
— Saji Ijiyemi
Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Loving connections are intimately associated with belief. The more connected we are, the more we believe in each other.
— R. A. Delmonico
Evolution of belief systems and issues of control? If something is worth believing in, it is timeless.
— R. A. Delmonico
Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan