#lie

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#believe #benefits #depend #few #getting

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#believed #changing #determine #fact #generally

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#belief #faith #passive

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#believe #believe in yourself #else #hobby #i

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#believe #i #never #people #read

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

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#anything #couple #families #feel #for the people

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#forgive #forgiven #oneself #only #ourselves

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history