#lievin

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#humble #people #pious #problem #real

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. ↗

— Max Eastman

#anything #believing #imagine #itself #liberal

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#because #believing #delve #fantasy #fantasy world

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#fundamentally #grew #i #powerless #up

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absolutely #any #anybody #anyone #anything

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#believing #duty #elective #elective office #error

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#being #being afraid #believe #believing #first

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#album #believing #better #company #cut