“So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.”— Adyashanti, amazon.com
“I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.”— Richard Dawkins, content.time.com
“They’re just words. And words alone don’t really mean anything. It’s what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.”— Dana Reinhardt, amazon.com
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”— Buddha, goodreads.com
“Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous.”— Ricky Gervais, twitter.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.”— Sue Grafton, amazon.com
“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”— Albert Bandura, nytimes.com
“For, by believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired...”— Nikos Kazantzakis, amazon.com
“I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about…love…and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of m…”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”— G. K. Chesterton, amazon.com
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com