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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
– Adam Phillips

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  2. Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  3. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  4. Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood. – Kilroy J Oldster
  5. A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood – Fabcos Famas
  6. Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind. – Alex Shakar
  7. I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion. – Debasish Mridha
  8. A mother’s lap is the strongest hub and school of each religion. In other words, the mother breezes and waves the religion since she is the religion. – Ehsan Sehgal
  9. At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  10. Pride makes us long for a solution to things -“ a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. – Julian Barnes
  11. Solution reigns supreme to those who see solution as the only way. – AuliqIce
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  13. To teach someone a lesson, show them how it’s done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all. – Vironika Tugaleva
  14. Let them have guns’ is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as ‘Let them have drugs’ is a solution to drug addiction. – DaShanne Stokes
  15. Fighting for peace is not the solution,but loving for peace is the solution. – Debasish Mridha
  16. Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes. – Ubaldina M Gibbs
  17. God doesn’t take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you. – Nancy N Rue
  18. Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll. – Willard Van Orman Quine
  19. Here’s how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing. – DeWayne Owens
  20. There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. – Neale Donald Walsch
  21. Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure. – Terry Pratchett
  22. Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing. – Eric Weiner
  23. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  24. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  25. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false — or — not believing something that is true. – Cortney S Warren
  26. Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by. – Adam Phillips
  27. Like the ‘good’ characters in literature, the sane don’t have any memorable lines. – Adam Phillips Going Sane
  28. The past influences everything and dictates nothing. – Adam Phillips
  29. Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter. – Adam Phillips
  30. The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. – Adam Phillips
  31. My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
  32. Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  33. Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I’m desperately wishes… – Hira Shahid Kazim
  34. There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere. – Sadghuru
  35. Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young. – Julian Barnes
  36. Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
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  38. The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn’t matter. – Adam Kirk Smith
  39. The razor bumps and the stretch marks will let you know adulthood charges a fee. – Byron SogieThomas
  40. Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up. – M Scott Peck

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