Convinced Quotes - Page 30

• I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Humanity

  "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millenium". Book by Thomas T. K. Zung, p. 174. Statement made in 1974, 2002.

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• As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

  T. D. Jakes

  Betrayal, Struggle, Frustration

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

  Lauren Myracle

  Like Being Alone, People, Deals

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• If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Want, Way

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Missing, Would Be, Being The Best

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.

  Larissa Ione

  Temper, Display

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• We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

  Paul Bowles

  Fall, Bumps, Hanging On

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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• Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Book, School, Parent

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• It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Believe, People

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• Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

  Tara Brach

  Real, Believe, Self

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• I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the tagged dissolute. The tagged dissolute. That is the only cross on which I wish to be crucified. Though ten thousand people criticize me, I can throw in their teeth my challenge: Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?

  Osamu Dazai

  Liars, People, Fake

  "The Setting Sun".

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• All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

  George Harrison

  Real, Lying, Light

  "Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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• For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.

  Dorothy Allison

  Wall, Pain, Fall

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• I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

  Wess Stafford

  Country, Lonely, Children

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.55, WaterBrook

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• I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Long, Together

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.400, Penguin

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• To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Grace, Peace With God

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• Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Real, Mean

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• I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Long, Doe, Lovers

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.

  Félix J. Palma

  Spring, Book, Silence

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• We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Deserve Love, Water

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

  Steve Jobs

  Perseverance, Passion, Successful

  "Learning to Use Tools". Interview with Daniel Morrow, americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

  Christopher Paolini

  Past, Broken, Miracle

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• Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Lying, Night

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.295, Hachette UK

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• The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Religious, Reality, Spurgeon

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• They’ll have to eat first. And by the time they’re finished, you’ll be back.” “With the condoms.” “Right.” “For the giant orgy you’re convinced we’re about to have in the backyard.” “Dory! Just go!” “I’ll go with,” Ray said, getting up. “I need a snack.” Which was how I ended up condom shopping with a vampire.

  Karen Chance

  Snacks, Shopping, Vampire

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.108, Penguin

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