#belief

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. ↗

— Jack Bowman

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Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#religion #religion

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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