I Quotes
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“I believe that myths about spiritual masters as perfect human beings have done more harm than good in our society. While looking for what you may perceive as a spiritual master (and in many cases the search is a mere reflection of your own likes and dislikes) you may overlook a simple and profound teacher that could easily guide you along the spiritual path. When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”
Source: The Seven Human Needs: A practical guide to finding harmony and balance in everyday life
“I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.”
“I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.”
“I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.”
Source: Wild Animals I Have Known
“I believe that nature is inherently good and if you simply nurture and support and encourage and accept people, even when they are horrid, they mature to-wards goodness, most of them at least.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“I believe that nature is wise, and that we all have deep instincts within us that can provide the wisdom to know when to eat, what to eat, and when to stop eating. Everyone has and needs these primal instincts. The Warrior Diet allows you to make changes, to binge on carbohydrates or fatty foods like nuts, and still be fine. Other diets don’t allow this freedom. I believe that feeling free should be a part of your life. By introducing you to the Warrior Diet, I hope to relay how this sense of freedom will enrich your life in many ways.”
Source: The Warrior Diet
“I believe that neutrinos impart maintenance of life and healing to us and that they supply energy to us, to our planet, and to everything else in our Taoverse.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.”
“I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, that there was to be a homosexual parade on the Monday that the Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.”
“I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.”
“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.”
“I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.”
“I believe that no matter how many mistakes weve made; how badly weve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.”
Source: Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life
“I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.”
“I believe that no matter what situation in life you find yourself, there is room for you to take control of little things, which ultimately adds up to big things.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.”
“I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.”
“I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.”
“I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.”
“I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773
“I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and
without illusion.”
Source: On Being Human
“I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.”
“I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.”
“I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.”
Source: Giorgio Morandi
“I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.”
Source: Hamlet in Purgatory
“I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.”
Source: My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants
“I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.”
“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”
“I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.”
“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.”
“I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.”
“I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.”
“I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists.”
“I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.”
“I believe that old boy over by the window has been dead three days, but I don't like to mention it to anyone.”
Source: The Inimitable Jeeves
“I believe that once people really grasp what is at stake for their health and their lives, and for the health and lives of their children, they will do everything in their power to protect the living world.”
“I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.”
“I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.”
“I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.”
“I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.”
“I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.”
“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.”
“I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.”
“I believe that one is more successful in expressing oneself through written words rather than speaking. While speaking, one misses the details. But writing? Writing is different altogether. It gives us ample time to contemplate what we wish to communicate. As a result, the flow of our thoughts seems much more coherent.”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.”