#Beliefs

"If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about."

"Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist."

"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."

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

"Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison."

"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."

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

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

"It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title."

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"

"Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life."

"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."

"People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world."

"Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own."

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

"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."

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

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