#lievin

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. ↗

— Yann Martel

#believe #believer #believing #god #life

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#morning #common-sense

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be. ↗

— James A. Owen

#believe #believing-in-yourself #determination #determined #self-determination

Isso não é amor. Eu já estive apaixonado, mas isso não é a mesma coisa. Não se trata de um sentimento meu, mas de uma força exterior que se apoderou de mim. Veja, eu fugi porque decidi que tal coisa não poderia acontecer, entende, como uma felicidade que não pode existir na terra; mas lutei contra mim mesmo e vejo que sem isso não existe vida. ↗

— Tolstoi Liev

#lievin #love #tolstoi #love

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth? ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#am #believing #between #centre #church

A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'I can't believe what I just saw'. Then the other man with different credo, 'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'. ↗

— Toba Beta

#believing #blasphemy #credo #evil #life

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Bruce

#been #believing #centuries #fact #fundamental

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three! ↗

— Pat Brown

#believing #between #connections #homicides #killer

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah. ↗

— James Durbin

#called #life #my life #song #stop

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#doing #gift #god #great #i