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Let these Sensible quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Related topics: Wisdom
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
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
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul
grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I want to share with you the three rules
that I have in order to accept an apprentice.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.
Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.
And by believing yourself, you create all the limitations
that don't allow you to be what you really are.
Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,
listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.
And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,
open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.
Don't believe them at all.
Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation.
It is an enlivening, intensely personal
core to our being. Our way of being.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
- Thomas Szasz
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- D. Elton Trueblood
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me.
I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis.
Either I know a thing, and then I know it -
I don't need to believe it.
- Carl Jung
Beliefs have evolved based on survival value.
Certain belief systems have been more conducive than others
to people living long enough to reproduce,
and having a high rate of reproduction.
It's that basic.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
Is a belief a perception of the five senses,
or is it a perception of emotional feeling?
Is it better to say "I sense" and/or "I feel"?
Is it better to say " I know" than "I believe"?
Is belief based on experience or on a idea?
My thinking is that belief/believing is a very missed used word.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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