Kristin

“Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.”
― Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order

“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals