“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood
“Sometimes the only one who believes in you is you, and sometimes that's all you need. ”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“[Oxford] whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!”
Matthew Arnold
“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi