"Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere"
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"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
"I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought."
"As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you."
"As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl."
"I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am."
"I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts."
"I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union."
"When someone shows you their true colors, believe them."
"I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."
"I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution."
"I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate."
"Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything."
"The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it."
"I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems."
"I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'"
"It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle."
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."
"I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don`t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people."
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."