#belief

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#belief #believe #christmas #father #household

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#belief #complain #deep #developed #inner

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#belief #character #common #common denominator #denominator

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#fact #hate #like #more #peculiar

He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#faith #faith

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#grounded #my own #own #reinforced #spiritual

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ↗

— Alan Watts

#attitude #belief #clinging #holding #holding on

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #contrary #first #friends

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#character #confined #consequent #credulity #credulous

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#grown #i #infantile #made #me