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Magic Miracles Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds. It seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. – Earl Nightingale

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

Everyday life is bearable only through miracles. – Max Frisch

He was in love with words, as was I. It was a magical time. – Jennifer Warnes (about Leonard Cohen)

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change. – Buddha

If you don’t believe in magic, you will never find it. – Roald Dahl

If you don’t believe in miracles, perhaps you have forgotten you are one. – Amy Rees Anderson

Miracles are invisible until they happen. – Mike Dooley

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. – Terence McKenna

Possessing the audacity to do the mundane, while expecting miracles to come from it, explains every heroic and supernatural feat known to humankind. – Mike Dooley

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. The fact that it is comprehensible is miracle. – Albert Einstein

The magic of believing. – Claude Bristol

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

There is magic in every beginning. – Hermann Hesse

Thought attracts that upon which it is directed. There is genuine magic in believing. – Claude Bristol

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. – William Hutchinson Murray (The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951)

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. – Helen Keller

You can become blind by seeing each day the same. Each day is different. Each day brings a miracle of its own. It is just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. – Paulo Coehlo

You know what the issue is with the world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic. – Lewis Carrol

Vision Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill

Every person takes the limits of their field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody ends up somewhere in life, and a few people end up somewhere on purpose. Those are the ones with vision. – Andy Stanley

I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small. – Terence McKenna

I was once given advice by an Indian who was worried about my preoccupation with words. You must learn to look at the world twice, he told me as I sat on the floor of his immaculately swept adobe room. First you must bring your eyes together in front so you can see each droplet of rain on the grass, so you can see the smoke rising from an anthill in the sunshine. Nothing should escape your notice. But you must learn to look again, with your eyes at the very edge of what is visible. Now you must see dimly if you wish to see things that are dim-visions, mist, and cloud-people… animals which hurry past you in the dark. You must learn to look at the world twice if you wish to see all that there is to see. – Jamake Highwater

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa

Knowing that you have fulfilled your highest vision is the ultimate pleasure. – Tony Robbins

Once we have clarified our vision, many decisions are already made. – Walt Disney

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another, and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams. – Andy Stanley

Revision is re-vision. You’re seeing it anew. – Margaret Atwood

Since our vision is so limited, let’s go! – Rumi

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. – Thucydides

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. – James Michener

The most important thing that’ll drive you is your ability just to sit down and create a vision of how you want to live  each day, that simple sense of feeling what you’re going to feel like when you’ve achieved your goals, when you are living in the body that you deserve. That’s what’ll give you the drive, that’s what’ll give you the power. – Tony Robbins

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive within the mature woman. – Anais Nin

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift

Vision is the course one follows to make dreams reality. Vision strengthens us to be committed.  Vision gives significance to the otherwise meaningless details of our lives. Without vision, good things will hinder us from achieving the best things.  A clear vision, along with the courage to follow through, dramatically increases our chances of coming to the end of our life looking back with a deep abiding satisfaction, and thinking, I did it, I succeeded, I finished well, my life counted. – Andy Stanley

Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Word masters

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. – Marshall McLuhan

Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. –  James Allen

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. – Carl Jung

Heart Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A love that cannot bear to be faced with reality is not a real love. But then, it is the privilege of noble hearts not to be able to love. – Albert Camus

A man who uses his hands is a laborer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. But he who uses his hands, his mind, and his heart, is an artist. – Francis of Assisi

Ah, if only we knew how to blossom: our heart would pass beyond every small danger and would find peace in the greatest danger of all. – Rainer Maria Rilke

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who loved only trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Caring about how you look must start in your heart and soul. Beauty products on their own won’t help. – Coco Chanel

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. – Rumi

Expectation is the root of all heartache. – Shakespeare

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. – Word-masters

Heart, I told you before, and I told you twice, and I told you three times, don’t knock at that door. No one will answer. – Folk song

Hippocrates had no means of recognizing the heart as a pump because there was no such item in his world, and no such word in his vocabulary. – Guido Majno

I carefully number the bricks of my heart for a later reconstruction. – Jeff Silva

I do not know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast. – Pablo Neruda

I still have the little handkerchief that was saturated with your tears. I carry it on me as a symbol that, in my heart, all your tears will be dried, always, friend, all your tears. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts like the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. – Og Mandino

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart, the fires which keep the poet alive as the citizen never lives, which burn all the roofs of security. – Edmund Wilson

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. – Rumi

If you set about doing something, put your heart into it and enjoy it. That way, regardless of the outcome, it will be a positive experience. – Unknown

It is good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were just starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all. –  Cormac McCarthy

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. – Stephen King

Losing love is like a window to your heart. Everybody sees you blown apart. Everybody sees the wind blow. – Paul Simon

Love me or hate me are both in my favor. If you love me, I am always in your heart. If you hate me, I’m always in your mind. – Shakespeare

My heart is like a flame turned upside down. – Guillaume Apollinaire

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. – Nelson Mandela

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else. – Anthony Hopkins

Oh my God, what if you wake up someday, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy, or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life of imagination and radical stillness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen. – Anne Lamott

Perhaps our heart is made of the answer that is never given. – Rene Char

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. – Rumi

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief’s opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. – Laurens Van Der Post

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. – Paulo Coelho

Tenderness contains an element of sadness. It is not the sadness of feeling sorry for yourself or feeling deprived, but it is a natural situation of fullness. You feel so full and rich as if you were about to shed tears. Your eyes are full of tears, and the moment you blink, the tears will spill out of your eyes and roll down your cheeks. To be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart. – Chogyam Trungpa

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart. – Helen Keller

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal. – Victor Hugo

The great fear in the world is of the opinions of others. The moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom. – Osho

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. – Julien Green

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything that comes their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. It’s impossible to move onward until you have let go of your past failures and heartaches. – Beat Schindler

The heart is an infinity of massive chains, chaining little handfuls of air. – Antonio Porchia

The heart of the matter it’s not our hearts or thoughts that got us to where we are. The heart of the matter it’s the words that got us from where we were to where we find ourselves now. – Beat Schindler

The non-violent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them a new self-respect. It calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes reality. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our hearts. That is where the battle should be fought. – Mahatma Gandhi

The poet’s heart, like all other hearts, is an interminable artichoke. – Pablo Neruda

The work of the eye is complete now. Work next at the heart‘s work – on those images you’ve captured within you, led in and overcome and left unknown. Look inside bridegroom – on your inside bride, so superbly drawn out of a thousand natures: a beauty thus far won, but thus far never loved. – Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no wealth better than the health of body, and no gladness above the joy of heart. – Sirach

This is my simple religion: There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples. My philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama

We are traveling with tremendous speed toward a star in the Milky Way. A great repose is visible on the face of the earth. My heart‘s a little fast. Otherwise, everything is fine. – Bertolt Brecht

What is to reach the heart must come from above. – Ludwig Van Beethoven

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. – Sharon Salzberg

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me. – Henry Miller

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it, wholeheartedly, and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. – Arthur Quiller-Couch

When you love you should not say love is in my heart, but rather I am in the heart of love. – Kahlil Gibran

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head? – Shakespeare

Why make yourself miserable by saying things like “Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?” all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident. – Richard Feynman

You know how when you visualize something every day, to such a degree that you can literately taste its reality? And you believe in the likelihood of its manifestation with all your heart and soul? And as often as you think of it, in at least some small way you prepare for its arrival. Yet still absolutely nothing happens? Right! That’s impossible. – Mike Dooley

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. – Carl Jung

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. – Buddha

Intelligent Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A crowd is a slow, stupid creature, far less intelligent than any one of its members. – Ian McEwan

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An industrious fool will get much further than a lazy intelligent one. – Unknown

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. – Aldous Huxley

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people. – Voltaire

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill

Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. – Henry Ford

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps. – Christopher Columbus

Grades don’t measure intelligence. Age doesn’t define maturity. – Unknown

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. – Coco Chanel

How many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing? – Geoffrey Hinton (father of AI)

I am your constant companion, your greatest asset, or your heaviest burden. I will push you up to success or drag you down to disappointment. I am completely at your command and easily managed, just be firm with me. I am the servant of all great men, and alas, of all failures as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures. I work with the precision of a robot and the intelligence of word-users. Half of everything you do I probably do for you quickly, correctly, and repeatedly. You may run me for profit or run me for ruin, it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you. Who am I? I am Habit. – Unknown

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purpose are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty … It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive and try to humbly comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in Nature. – Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. – Ingmar Bergman

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

In some basic way, I have always really felt in my more rational and intelligent moments that there is something tremendously creative about truancy. – Jonathan Mille

In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence, bliss, the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock. – David Lynch

Intelligence is a way of acting that supports your values. – Unknown

Intelligence is nothing without delight. – Paul Claudel

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. – Stephen Hawking

It is not the result of scientific research that ennobles humans and enriches their nature, but the struggle to understand while performing creative and open-minded intellectual work. – Albert Einstein

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

It is of no use to convince others of our spiritual and intellectual equality by way of reason since others’ attitude does not come by way of their brains. We must instead emancipate ourselves socially and satisfy our own social requirements. – Albert Einstein

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. – Charlie Munger

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world. – Albert Einstein

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent, and everything would finally become clear to me, or else that I needn’t live much longer. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. – Albert Einstein

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. – Albert Einstein

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts. – Albert Einstein     

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of words. – Beat Schindler

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien… What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe. – Terence McKenna

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God’s Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor. – Albert Einstein

The most difficult subjects can be explained to a most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already. The simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him. – Leo Tolstoy

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were. – Jack Welch

Two sitting intellectuals don’t go as far as a walking brute. – Unknown

We should take care not to make intellect our god. It has of course powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein

Belief Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A visitor to my country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teased me – the scientist – about this ancient superstition. Can it be that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck? Of course not, I replied, but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe it or not. – Niels Bohr

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it. – Don Marquis

And curious creatures that we are, in every sense of the word. Not only are we the sole animal in all of nature capable of believing in Santa Claus, we are also the only one that can come to grips with the unpleasant truth that he doesn’t exist. – Jon Franklin

Another alternative would have been to give you what’s called a popular-scientific lecture, that is a lecture intended to make you believe that you understand a thing which actually you don’t understand, and to gratify what I believe to be on of the lowest desires of modern people, namely the superficial curiosity about the latest discoveries of science. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Atheist: Any or every man who does not believe in the god of the priest. – Voltaire

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external causes. – David Hawkins

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. – Tony Robbins

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier and certainly no more difficult than small ideas and small plans. – David Schwartz

Believe in the future by creating it first. – Hugh Macleod

Believe it, you’ll see it. Know it, you’ll be it! – Wayne Dyer

Believe nothing unless it agrees with your own reason. – Buddha

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. – Beatrix Potter

Between dreaming and making a dream come true is belief. – Beat Schindler

Dear Miss Block: The question “Why” in the human sphere is easy to answer: To create satisfaction for ourselves and for other people. In the extra-human sphere the question has no meaning. Also the belief in God is no way out for in this case you may ask “Why God”. Sincerely yours. – Albert Einstein (on April 28, 1961, in a letter to Miss Marion Block, May Cottage, Oberlin, Ohio)

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible – and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure. – René Magritte

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do. – Leonard Cohen

Does a child believe that milk exists? Or does it know that milk exists? Does a cat know that a mouse exists? – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

For they can conquer who believe they can. – John Dryden

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? – Woody Allen

No-one believed in microscopic life before the microscope. – Unknown

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don’t like change. – Seth Godin

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble. – Rudyard Kipling

I am a firm believer in negative thinking when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are, but he doesn’t think continuously about the bunker, where he doesn’t want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he dwells upon the green. – Maxwell Maltz

I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace … Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war? – Albert Einstein

I believe in God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of human beings. – Albert Einstein

I believe that there are more urgent and honorable occupations than that incomparable waste of time we call suffering. – Colette

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible  for him to develop into a creative personality. – Albert Einstein

I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am. Yes: one can make the decision to say I believe he is in pain instead of he is in pain. But that is all. What looks like an explanation here, or like a statement about a mental process, is in truth an exchange of one expression for another which, while we are doing philosophy, seems the more appropriate one. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. – Byron Katie

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. – J.K. Rowling

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. – Ronald Reagan

I do not believe in pity. What torments me tonight is the gardener’s point of view. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. – Thomas Paine

I do not believe that rich people are better or worse than poor people. They are just richer. – T Harv Eker

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small. – Terence McKenna

I don’t believe I have ever invented a line of thinking, I have always taken one over from someone else. I have simply straightaway seized on it with enthusiasm for my work of clarification. That is how Boltzmann, Hertz, Schopenhauer, Frege, Russell, Kraus, Loos, Weininger, Spengler, and Sraffa have influenced me. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don’t believe in the verb, to be. I do not believe that I am. – Duchamp

I firmly believe that love of a subject or hobby is a better teacher than a sense of duty, at least for me. – Albert Einstein

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. It is not the object that matters to me but what is between them: it is this in-between that is the real subject of my pictures. – George Braque

I realized a long time ago that a belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all. When I am convinced of something, I am convinced with my whole self, as though my flesh had informed me. Knowledge is the condition of my being. – Evelyn Scott

I think people talk too much, that’s the truth of the matter. I do. I don’t believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. – Michelangelo Antonioni

If a business fails, it’s always the owner’s beliefs or skills. – Tony Robbins

If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed. – Voltaire

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. –  Mahatma Gandhi

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children that there are no fairies. He can omit to teach them fairy. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn’t be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t believe in magic, you will never find it. – Roald Dahl

If you don’t believe in miracles perhaps you have forgotten you are one. – Amy Rees Anderson

If you don’t believe in miracles, you’re not a realist. – Anonymous

If your beliefs don’t get you to abundance, you’ve missed something. – Beat Schindler

It all began with my eye-trapper when I was a little boy. I used to close my eyes and turn around three times. I believed that way I could trap the air, the scents, the life that surrounded me. The trap didn’t work very well, but I never got over the idea of it. – Jacques Henri Lartigue

It is surely harmful to the souls to make a heresy of believing what is felt. – Galileo

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. – James Baldwin

It’s better to look back and say I can’t believe I did that, than to look back and say I wish I had. – Unknown

James Dickey had always been interested in the creative possibilities of the lie. He believe that the poet is not trying to tell the truth, but to make it. The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being. It is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

Man is what he believes. – Anton Chekhov

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer. – Antonio Porchia

My good friend Jacques Monod spoke often of the randomness of the cosmos. He believed everything in existence occurred by pure chance with the possible exception of his breakfast, which he felt certain was made by his housekeeper. – Woody Allen

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is to believe that ones works is terribly important. ­ Bertrand Russell

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. – Pablo Picasso

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

People don’t do what they believe in. They just do what’s most convenient and then repent. – Bob Dylan

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it. – Anne Lamott

Religion is belief in someone else’s experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. – Deepak Chopra

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. – Ronald Reagan

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some are like the fool who believes things come into existence when he opens his eyes and cease to exist when he closes them. – Unknown

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events. – Maxwell Maltz

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Suppose it were forbidden to say I know and only allowed to say I believe I know. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The best camouflage is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it. – Max Frisch

The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The man I want to become, if I believe myself to be, I will become. – Gandhi

The market for something to believe in is infinite. – Hugh Macleod

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Sir Peter Ustinov

The problem lies precisely in not accepting any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. I am not responsible for my belief. It is not even I who decided that I am not responsible – and so on to infinity. I am not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure. – René Magritte

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity. The idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known.  There is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The ultimate fraud is the scientific atheist who believes in probability. – Bart Kosko

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There is but one way to experience freedom. It’s not through knowledge. It can only be found through practice, practice, practice of free will. Staying open to the possibilities of choices you made ever since you ceased to be a baby. Co-author together with the divine at your side every step, creating your own life and through it, the life of others. I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. – Byron Katie

There might actually occur a case where we should say, This man believes he is pretending. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else’s. – Joseph Campbell

Thought attracts that upon which it is directed. There is genuine magic in believing. – Claude Bristol

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson

Ts’ui Pen did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time — the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through centuries —embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you have come to my gate. In another you, crossing the garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these very same words, but am an error, a phantom. – Jorge Luis Borges

Very few people believed in microscopic life, before the invention of the microscope. – Wayne Dyer

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could. – William James

We do not believe what we see, we see what we believe. – Brian Tracy

What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts and doubt their beliefs. – Jannie Putter

What is this? the Unicorn asked. This is a child! Haigha replied eagerly, coming in front of Alice to introduce her. I always thought they were fabulous monsters! said the Unicorn. Is it alive? It can talk, said Haigha solemnly. The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said: Talk, child. Alice said: Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters too. I never saw one alive before. Well, now that we have seen each other, said the Unicorn, if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain? – Lewis Carroll

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

What we believe is going to come from a situation determines what we go after and what we hold back from. – Tony Robbins

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. – Tony Robbins

When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything. And all rites are of this kind. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it. – Irving Stone

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. – Maya Angelou

When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird. – Tara Brach

When you don’t understand what your values and beliefs are, you stand under somebody else’s. – Beat Schindler

Where belief in the omnipotence of physical force gets the upper hand in political life, this force takes on a life of its own and proves stronger than the men who think about using force as a tool. – Albert Einstein

With your thoughts you fashion your environment. Your beliefs, ideals and philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. – Steven Covey

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. – Maxwell Maltz

Would you rather have your mind closed by belief, or opened by wonder? – Anonymous

You are not responsible for the beliefs you were given in childhood. But when you’ve grown up you are totally responsible for fixing it, that’s why it’s called grownup. – Beat Schindler

You don’t always know, but you can always believe. – Beat Schindler

You have to learn to ignore your fear. Without the will to believe in yourself, nothing good can happen.- Hilma af Klint

You know how when you visualize something every day, to such a degree that you can literately taste its reality? And you believe in the likelihood of its manifestation with all your heart and soul? And as often as you think of it, in at least some small way, you prepare for its arrival? Yet still absolutely nothing happens? Right! That’s impossible. – Mike Dooley

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. – Marianne Williamson

Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does. – Unknown

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And it will punish you for believing both. – Patrick Ness

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Adventure Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. – Joseph Campbell

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal. – Paulo Coelho

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

The brightest moment in any long journey to make your dreams come true does not happen on the day they finally do, but on the day you realize how little they matter compared to loving the adventure they’ve inspired. – Mike Dooley

Grateful Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. The secret to wealth is gratitude. – Sir John Templeton

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life’s greatest gifts. – Napoleon Hill

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others. – Cicero

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. – Rumi

I’m not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery. I’m just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for. – Bill Watterson

In all things, we should make ourselves be as grateful as possible. – Seneca

It’s not the happy people who are grateful. It’s the grateful people who are happy. – Anonymous

The greatest opponent of gratitude is guilt. – Steven Furtick

Those men would deserve the gratitude of ages, who should discover a mode of government that contained the greatest sum of individual happiness, with the least national expense. – Giacinto Dragonetti

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude, for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power. – Wallace D. Wattles