#Beliefs

"I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs."

"Trust comes from courage; beliefs are derived from fear."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"Doubt everything. Find your own light."

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

"To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important."

"If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs)."

"We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins."

"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

"Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing."

"God’s word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action."

"Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard."

"Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you."

"Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults."

"The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe."

"We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)"

"I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in."

"Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?"

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."

"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie."