“I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth.” BelieveLongHas BeensReasonI BelievePathOur LivesDoorsBirthMeetingsWoundsCirclesHealEncounters Book:Every Secret Thing Source: Every Secret Thing
“Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsBelieveWellsMightLife IsAttentionLaughingComedyMysteryBirthDrugMysteriousIdeologyPay AttentionOddChaptersApocalypseComfortingIf You BelieveDeanBoozeOdd ThomasBurial Book:Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.” BelieveHardUseNaturalSimpleSpaceLeaderMillionsBirthTruth IsMassUnderstoodLogicMethodRateBoundsPopulationLimitationFollowersPreferenceRocketsStarvationHard To BelieveSimple TruthsContraceptivesEmigrationBirth Rate Author:Richard Dawkins
“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.” PeopleGivingBelieveConditionsBrotherBirthDon't BelieveAccidentsMy BrotherBrotherhoodMy SisterBrothers And SistersSiblingSisterSisterhoodYour BrotherMy SiblingsBrotherlyBrotherly LoveBrother SisterYounger BrotherSiblings SistersSister LoveCute SiblingOther SisterSiblings BrothersSiblings Sisters And BrothersBaby SisterFunny Brother And SisterFunny Brother SisterCute Brother And SisterFunny SiblingFunny SisterSisters FriendshipCute Brother SisterCute SisterhoodCute SisterFunny BrotherInspirational SisterhoodFunny SisterhoodInspirational SisterSibling DaySister FriendRakhiBrother LoveCute BrotherLove My BrotherInspirational Brother And SisterSibling InspirationalSisters And Mothers Book:Conversations with Maya Angelou Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsShouldTryingMindBelieveMadeHardFormParentAbilityOpinionTaughtBirthShapesEmptyDetermineDenyConvincedTreatedPerceiveCurseAshamedFedsFreakUninformedNarrow MindsBirth Parents Author:Alyson Noel
“If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place.” IfsBelieveHas BeensImportantDifferentHelpingStoriesMovingReligionBitsParentBornDoubtHappenedBirthAtheistConvictionAccidentsNo DoubtGrandparentSoarContradictoryDifferent PlaceStirringCathedralsVariablesParablesParents And Grandparents Author:Richard Dawkins
“What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has to be proved. That God Almighty has to be proved. That Christ as a son of God has to be proved, that His birth as immaculate conception has to be proved. Not by argument, not by reasoning, nor by blind faith but by actualization on your central nervous system.” LoveBelieveWisdomSpiritChristMeditationDivineSonBirthYogaArgumentBlindNervousReasoningWellnessConceptionAlmightyNervous SystemBlind FaithImmaculateActualizationCentral Nervous SystemImmaculate Conception Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.” BelieveChildrenWarWholeAgeFormPoorNumbersBirthSolutionsProgramClaimsJewHeyAbortionGenocideBirth ControlExtermination Author:Dorothy Day
“In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of course, know all these laws yet, but I believe that such laws exist. I do not, therefore, believe in the literal truth of some miracles which are featured in the Christian Scriptures, such as the Virgin Birth or water into wine. ... God works, I believe, within natural laws, and, according to natural laws, these things happen.” KnowsBelieveHappensChristianLawScienceCertainCoursesBeliefI BelieveUnderstandingWaterNaturalHard WorkBrokenBirthMiracleWineScriptureThings HappenFirmVirginsLaws Of NatureLiteralNatural LawFirm BeliefsVirgin Birth Author:Nevill Francis Mott
“Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?” WantBelieveWaterHellBloodBirthDevilAngelWineAtheistMythRepresentativesImpressVirginsGrotesqueTrinityAscensionSorceryVirgin Birth Author:Karlheinz Deschner