#lievin

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ↗

— George Seaton

#common #common sense #faith #sense #tells

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

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We've survived by believing our life is going to get better. ↗

— Paul Simon

#better #get #going #life #our

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#alzheimer #arthritis #burdens #cancer #chronic

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life. ↗

— Milissa R. Bailey

#breathing #dreams-inspirational #faith #family #inspirational

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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