“A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?” IfsHumansHappensHumanityBeliefWeekConditionsBuddhismPoliceRecognitionRealisticHuman Condition Author:Frederick Lenz
“Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” HappensBeliefConvictionAffirmationRepetition Book:Magic of Believing Source: Magic of Believing
“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.” PeopleKnowsWritingHappensRunningBeliefTypeWho You AreBoxesCasting Author:Chris Carmack
“I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.” ThinkingMatterHappensPoliticalReadingBeliefProcessVoiceReligiousDecisionOpinionCitizensHolyBibleLocalsReligious BeliefHoly Bible Author:Tim Scott
“When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.” BelieveBigsHappensBeliefPrayingThings HappenBig Things Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.” FirstsEndsHappensScienceBeliefHighestConscienceCourtConvictionPhysicistLawfulness Author:Max Planck
“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.” IfsWayFeelsHas BeensTwoFeelingsHandsMightHappensMovingBeliefResultsHealingBehindsEnemyRocksObjectsWeaponsAngerIntentionInjusticeShoesPeacefulReleaseAlternativesFixedTwo ThingsToxic Author:Deepak Chopra
“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.” MenSaidPhilosophyHappensBeliefSecretPrinciplesFailingSeaFlowSightEnglandRelationHarmonyEastSubtleTidesImpressedRudeCoastResemblanceEast CoastEbb And FlowDwellersKent Author:James G. Frazer
“Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.” LooksEnoughFeelingsHappensBeliefCausesHurtGriefFoodWillingExpressionConflictDirectShameOur RelationshipStance Author:Geneen Roth
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.” BelieveEndsHappensFightingBeliefGreaterOptimismPreparedShockThinkerWhen Things Go WrongPositive Thinker Author:Oliver Burkeman
“Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.” IfsThinkingMindUseHappensBeliefTheologyPassingPassingsPassing By Author:Dallas Willard
“[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.” MenWorldHappensBeliefFictionWrittenChangedScience FictionConvictionIntellectIngredientsIndispensable Author:James Gunn
“In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.” FirstsLittlesDoeMadeHappensReligionBeliefNationsClearSkyShareWorshipUnderstoodConstitutionEnglandCuriousMade ItAmendmentsSuperstitionsFoundersFirst AmendmentTaboo Author:Gore Vidal
“We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.” HappensBeliefProcessImaginationAbilitySpacePossibilityRelationCinemaReadiness Author:Masha Tupitsyn