6.2.08

Quotable quotes

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better
- Anthony Walton

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.
- Roger John


The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
- William James

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
- Thomas Fuller

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
- Ann Landers

We cater to all your spiritual needs


-Sign outside my local liquor sto

Been working on the same spot for 30 years


-Tagline on the front of my local drycleaners

Drop your pants here


Sign inside of same drycleaners

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.


D. Elton Trueblood

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.


-Gandhi

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14.1.08

His name was Robert Hanssen

America can be likened to a retarded child trapped inside of a powerfully built body


-Robert Hanssen, Breach

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12.1.08

Quotes for my day

We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.


-Paul Bowles, A Sheltering Sky

"I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough."


-Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.


- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune.

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