Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? - Voltaire

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ― Rita Mae Brown

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. ― bell hooks

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It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion. ― Thomas Sowell

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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ― bell hooks,

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

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