I believe that humankind is not inherently good at heart. All of us face the temptation to act selfish, thoughtless, and even cruel. We must overcome those desires to demonstrate love, compassion and kindness…
I believe that people do not change. Though people do grow, mature, and learn, a person’s basic personality will stay constant throughout their life…
I believe that people can change. If you give people the opportunity to live up to your high expectations, sometimes they will exceed them…
I believe that there are several kinds of love. Community love is the idea that you share a bond with the people close to you and your social life. Familial love is the idea that blood or adoptive relationships represent a commitment of support and care. Friendship love is the practice of mutual goals and interests. Physical love is the pursuit of pleasure. Selfless love is the desire to put the true needs of another person ahead of your own regardless of the price you pay…
I believe that giving love selflessly but not receiving it in return does not diminish me…
I believe that being alone is not the same as being lonely. At times, solitude is a gift that everyone should enjoy. You can only truly know yourself when you are alone. Yet this is not the best way for everyone to live — we all need other people…
I believe that it is better to be alone than to be with the wrong person or the right person at the wrong time. Real love builds up — it exposes insecurities and fears and removes them. Any love that brings more tears than joy and more pain than contentment is a false hope of the real thing…
I believe that men and women can be friends without any hint of romantic entanglement. Any culture that does not promote this idea, or worse, cannot even conceive of such a thing, is broken…
I believe that knowledge can never replace wisdom, but combined, they form an unbeatable combination…
I believe that unreasonable people change the world. Not everyone who is unreasonable will change the world, and not everything unreasonable is necessarily worth changing, but the first step toward changing the world lies in not accepting it as it is…
I believe that facing your fears with humility, patience, and grace builds character. When good eventually wins and the truth ultimately comes out, we can acknowledge our failures honestly and demonstrate that we have changed into the people we ought to have been from the start…
I believe Blind Faith does not require that you close your eyes to reality…it only asks that you open your heart to possibilities…
