“When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.” IfsMayStoriesCoursesBeliefFictionGoneCurrentsRanRelaxSmoothCircuitsCounterfeit Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.” ThinkingI CanReasonTodayMovingBeliefGriefGoneRiskMinutesTomorrowRight NowGloryMysteriousTidesHere Today Gone Tomorrow Book:High Tide in Tucson Source: High Tide in Tucson
“When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.” PeopleKnowsWorldDifferentBeliefNumbersGoneMovedSuperstitionsDisagreeableDifferent Life Author:Mark Twain
“The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.” WorldKindBeliefTalkingStruggleGoneImpossibleChangedFrustrationGood Will Book:My Fight / Your Fight Source: My Fight / Your Fight
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.” WellsChildrenPainJobsYoungBeliefGrowthGoneGrowingChildhoodEventsIdentityDevelopmentOughtComfortAdultsTasksEaseInternalsRelativeMatesAdulthoodAdolescenceFormationMarkersGrowing PainsPersonal ChangeChange GrowthInternal Peace Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.” MatterBeliefReligiousGoneStyleObviousReligious Belief Author:Robert A. Heinlein