#belief

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#evil #psychoanalysis #religion #religion

The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#confidence #inner-searching #self-esteem #self-belief

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bring #captain #fail #failed #false

We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith. ↗

— Ramsey Isler

#death #faith #fantasy #philosophy #death

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christians #church #commandments #faith #inspirational

The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales. ↗

— Toba Beta

#facts #fairy-tales #imagination #imagination

...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

#lies #stories #the-truth #imagination

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beliefs #believe #cheese #flat #flat-earth

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#life