Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Body positivity is as simple as making the choice to love yourself despite your shortcomings.
To embrace your whole self and not let others dictate how you feel about your body.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.