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Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Have a Vision, a Dream.
Believe in that Vision.
Live that Vision with every fiber of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
- John Lennon
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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