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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.

  Georges Braque

  Believe, Discovery, Made

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

  William F. Schulz

  Mysterious, Cherish, Creation

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• He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, This World

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• Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.

  Seth Godin

  Nature, Reality, Expectations

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• Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Choices, Matter, Conviction

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• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Political, Mythology

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “I have tried to tell the truth: 1943-1944”

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• Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Believe, Thinking

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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  The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616

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• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Motivational, Success, Faith

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• Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.68, Fig

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• …being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

  Anne Rice

  Atheist, Thinking, Ideas

  Anne Rice (2013). “Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession”, p.129, Random House

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• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Believe, Tests, Action

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  Henry Miller

  Leadership, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

  Henry Miller

  Law, Miracle, Doctrine

  "Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

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• I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

  Wilson Mizner

  Hate, Believe, Effort

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Literature, Ifs

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• To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.95, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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