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Seedthoughts
Beliefs: What thoughts and convictions influence my life?

1. No one knows what reality is. No one! We arrive in this world with only the certainty that we exist. That's all. --Jeffrey Donner
2. Every person has a set of "core beliefs" about the nature of reality and lives as if absolutes were true. Our separate core beliefs, whether secular or religious, anchor us in the dizzying vastness of the great unknown we call reality. --Sarah R. Taggart
3. Something is holy to everyone, even to those who deny the holy.
   --Paul Tillich
4. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
   --Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
5. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. --Robert Frost
6. Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it. --Andre Gide
7. The question for human life is . . . what is the "best" illusion under which to live? --Ernest Becker
8. It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out in a troubled sea of thought. --John Kenneth Galbraith
9. We live in the world we imagine. --Clifford Geertz
10. Some things have to be believed to be seen. --Ralph Hodgson
11. It seems that there is no pain, no misery which some member of the human race is not prepared to put up with . . . to maintain the belief that "I am a good person." --Dorothy Rowe
12. Every self-limiting belief has two components: "I am not good enough." "I'm a victim of circumstance." --Richard Gillett
13. My approach to psychotherapy is to zero in, as quickly as possible, on the client's philosophy of life; to get him to see exactly why this is inevitably self-defeating; and to persuade him to . . . profoundly change it.
    --Albert Ellis
14. Philosophy? Philosophy. I am a Christian and a Democrat--that's all. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
15. My philosophy is: You can measure your life's worth by how many people you serve. If you work for your husband, you work for a single individual. If you work for your family, you are valued by that family. If you work for a community or society, you are precious to them. . . . How many people are you working for? --Aye Saung
16. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.
    --Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

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