"There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are."
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"Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?"
"Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet"
"I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!"
"As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison."
"Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process."
"We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag."
"Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?"
"Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around."
"I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago."
"Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does."
"The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded."
"They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief."
"The happy ending is our national belief."
"You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life."
"In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth."
"Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create."
"Although Kim Jong Un is a very unreasonable leader and has a firm, unreasonable belief that nuclear and missile weapons will protect him and his regime, we will continue to employ all possible means - sanctions, pressure, as well as dialogue - to draw North Korea to the negotiating table for denuclearization. To resolve the issue, we have to add dialogue to the current menu of sanctions and pressure."
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."