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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.
Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.
I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.
It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.
If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.
I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.
The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.
Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.
The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.
There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.