“Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to ha…”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.”— Arthur Koestler, amazon.com
“Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn’t change them, since I believed them at the time.”— Jorge Amado, amazon.com
“To lead requires those who willingly follow. It requires those who believe in something bigger than a single issue. To inspire starts with the clarity of WHY.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t change since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”— John Berger, amazon.com
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, amazon.com
“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”— Paul Watzlawick, goodreads.com
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”— John Green, amazon.com
“The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees.”— Mark Rothko, amazon.com
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”— Voltaire, amazon.com
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the on…”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Whatever you believe about yourself on the inside is what ultimately manifests on the outside. Positivity is the only way forward and a little delusion never hurt anyone.”— Akif Kichloo (via AKIFKICHLOO), akifkichloo.com
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“Don’t you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them… You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.”— Kevin Wilson, amazon.com
“Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.”— Mark Rothko, theguardian.com
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the onl…”— James Joyce, amazon.com