#beliefs

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#beliefs #conditioning #cultural-conditioning #culture #eduction

What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem. ↗

— Russell Banks

#beliefs #doing #life

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#broken-hearts #dishonesty #growth #hearts #judgement

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#rationality #religion #religion

I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#believing #judgmental #religion #right #wrong

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#charity #community #compassion #faith #kindness

The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind the door of that belief, and all other doors to learning and freedom, although standing open and waiting for me to enter, are now closed to me. If I believe in one God, one religion, yes, if I believe in God at all, if I have closed my mind to magic, to spirit, to salvation, to the unknown dimension that exist in the firmament, I have plunged my mind into slavery. Test all beliefs. Distrust all beliefs. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#religion #freedom

Beliefs that are pushed, and force onto you, have the power to destroy your spirit and keep you captive in a reality of fear and pain ↗

— Martin Suarez

#beliefs #captive #fear #freedom #pain

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#astrology #atheism #belief #beliefs #magic

Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning as they extend their hand. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#religion