#lievin

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#believing #best #big-time #childhood #ever

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#believing #certain #embraces #mysteries #supreme

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believing #blinded #fall #fallible #human

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to. ↗

— Emily Watson

#answer #believing #god #i #inner

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#believing #duty #elective #elective office #error

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#being #being afraid #believe #believing #first

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#finding #loss #funny

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#believe #believing #enough #law #miracles