"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."

Belief, Giving, Quitting

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"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."

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"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this - and out of nothing - can still count the hairs of my head."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."

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"Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live."

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"You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Never confuse belief with knowledge."

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"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."

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"Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them."

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"When you allow your mind to ONLY have positive thoughts towards your desired outcome you are saying to the Universe that you are devoted to manifesting your dream."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."

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