Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When it comes to believing in the important things in life (like love, hope, justice, peace) we have...
JON MORRISON Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrar...
HENRY EYRING You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD happiness is a thing of beauty, without that there is no hope in life, things happen for the right r...
MIKE GRIST Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that beco...
ALEX TREBEK I don't wanna get hurt. I have to live. I love myself so much. I wanna duplicate myself for much mor...
EPHDAN

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passion...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that ...
ALEX TREBEK

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
GORE VIDAL

Life is not a sport. Life is not math. There is no final end goal and there is no right answer. Just...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA My family expect me to fail in life; they expect me that I will not become anyone in live. They expe...
TEMITOPE OWOSELA

I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make sma...
DERRICK ROSE Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ...
BUTCH HANCOCK I didn't like it because Jell-O is soft to me. But I think they can call him 'Jell-O' now. I call hi...
BOBBY MARTIN I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
MAE WHITMAN

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores m...
FRANZ KAFKA

This is the strangest life I have ever known.
JIM MORRISON

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong beli...
ALANA STEWART There are no more surprises and shocks in life, so that I watch the flame without agitation. For me ...
R.K. NARAYAN

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a sing...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my th...
LIL' KIM

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
CHARLES DICKENS

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy...
PAUL WASHER

When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything othe...
JOHNNY DEPP

God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.
AMIT RAY A man staunchly believing, thinking and doing work without selfish motives for humanity will always ...
ANUJ SOMANY

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER

O don't know when you'll be ready for me. It might be next month or next year. Whenever it is, just ...
COLLEEN HOOVER God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my fait...
GORDON ATKINSON

Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding wa...
STEVE GLEASON I see the working of the Lord in my life. We have so much compared to other people. Some people say ...
LUCILLE REYNOLDS

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, le...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't...
ANN LANDERS Comprehending the universal aesthetic of limitless beauty, I will find clever & helpful ways to shar...
STR8NUOUT There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national li...
GEORGE A. SMITH I love it. I can look up into the crowd and see faces that I know, and people that have been cheerin...
BRIAN BROHM I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains...
MEGAN MCDONALD Meditation gives me the energy and the strength to do all the things I do in my life. And my life is...
CARMELLA HILBERT

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad...
JOHN MCAFEE We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;
some connected for mere seconds, some connec...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
CLARENCE DARROW

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventu...
OG MANDINO

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way o...
DEAN KOONTZ

I have the most beautiful souls in my life supporting me and helping me to follow my dreams. I love ...
BINDI IRWIN

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pr...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If there is one thing in life i am thankful for and that is to no what love is and if someone gives ...
GARY F EVANS... I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with ...
NATASHA TSAKOS I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will...
VICTORIA OSTEEN

I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to...
ANN VOSKAMP The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. T...
SARA WISEMAN I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success fo...
SASHA AZEVEDO You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
HENRY FORD I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.
KENNY WORMALD What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given...
AGATHA CHRISTIE In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ...
ISAAC ASIMOV Life is very easy when you make a decision and stick with it, over thinking things makes life harder...
MIKE GRIST People are already giving me money. In case I prove that he's military, I can give back all the mone...
LEN TOTORA I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with grea...
JESSICA WHITE There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that...
JOYCE GIRAUD Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to t...
KENTETSU TAKAMORI God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much lov...
AMIT RAY It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's lik...
HARMONY KORINE I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-...
JANET ONG ZIMMERMAN Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girl...
EDDIE IZZARD Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the peopl...
SOJOURNER TRUTH I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than l...
HARLAN ELLISON The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to becom...
C. JOYBELL C. It is, for all intents and purposes, a rest-of-your-life decision, ... I have loved public service, ...
BOB GRAHAM I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family arou...
EWAN MCGREGOR If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS Our personal belief is that God creates life from conception, and no one but God can take it away.
GREGORY ROWLAND I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal sta...
OSWALD CHAMBERS You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love ...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA This is the best I?ve ever felt in my whole life playing football -- in my whole life. Even college,...
DEION BRANCH There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is ...
EZRA CORNELL I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that...
BILLY RAY CYRUS I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter....
HOPE SOLO Religion is not something that you or I can touch. Religion is the worship of God—therefore a matt...
MATTHEW KELLY There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only proble...
AL GALLAGHER There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan......
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy f...
SALMA HAYEK Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonab...
STEPHEN LAW If I behold the beauty of God, I then perceive all that is beauty within me, and around me. If I den...
SUSIE L HILL The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference ...
LARRY PAGE Two things there will always be in life: Beauty and pain. Mostly beauty.
ANNE CLENDENING When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth...
SARA TEASDALE What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty
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WILLIAM PENN He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the e...
WILLIAM PENN True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and...
WILLIAM PENN The public must and will be served.
WILLIAM PENN It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to ...
WILLIAM PENN Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
WILLIAM PENN A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
WILLIAM PENN Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
WILLIAM PENN To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
WILLIAM PENN Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reaso...
WILLIAM PENN He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
WILLIAM PENN A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defe...
WILLIAM PENN Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it
WILLIAM PENN He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the e...
WILLIAM PENN He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
WILLIAM PENN Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ost...
WILLIAM PENN Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
WILLIAM PENN I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movie...
SEAN PENN Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
WILLIAM PENN A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defen...
WILLIAM PENN Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
WILLIAM PENN Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th...
IRVING PENN Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
WILLIAM PENN What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
IRVING PENN My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style ...
DYLAN PENN Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
SEAN PENN Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
WILLIAM PENN I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're bein...
SEAN PENN There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or disc...
SEAN PENN Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separ...
SEAN PENN I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curio...
PENN BADGLEY The Venezuelan government is required to provide diplomatic protection under the Vienna Convention o...
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Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

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Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

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