"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— Noam Chomsky

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
— George Bernard Shaw

"As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours."
— Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War)

"If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you."
— Allison DuBois

"Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if...
If we had known who we really were."
— Julia Cameron

"stand up for what you believe in even if your the only one standing"
— Alex

"There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?"
— Suzanne Weyn (Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

" "You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this."

"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.""
— Haruki Murakami (Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World)

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
— Oprah Winfrey

"Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

"On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.

"
— Pablo Neruda

"You only truly believe that which moves you to action."
— Douglas Cheney

""I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.""
— Lucy Liu

"There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself."
— Sam Kao

"I believe in organized chaos. "
— Zunpip

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

"The person who does not believe it can be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
— Chinese Proverb

"In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
"
— Michael Jackson

""I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.""
— Steve Nash

"nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries toimagine perfection simply revealshis own emptiness"
— George Orwell

"Down there the nights are bright and nobody beleives in the Devil"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell."
— Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis)

"'Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said."
— Joan Lowery Nixon (The Haunting)

"We are not lost when we die.
We never go away.
Why would we go away?
When we're gone, we come back."
— Dennis Downey

""I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.""
— Gillian Anderson

"You can always become better."
— Tiger Woods

"It is worth it to stand up for your beliefs because, chances are, they won't go to waste."
— Lauren Kent

"I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn’t I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn’t want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe."
— Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip)