a partial list

I believe in trust.
I believe in art.
I believe that men and women have important things to say to each other.
I believe that talking is good.
I believe that there can be too much talking.

I believe in telling stories.
I believe in listening to stories.
I believe in hearing old stories and remembering what has been forgotten.
I believe in laughter, and in old friends, and I believe in the power of sharing laughter with those who have known you at your worst, as well as at your best.

I believe in sincerity.
I believe in engaging debt.
I believe in repaying debt.
I believe in offers made without thought of recompense.
I believe in generosity and in the joy of gifts well given and received.

I believe in a future encompassing compassion.

I believe in the manifestation of value, even if obliquely.
I believe that the people in the world who see similarities and forgive differences, and who long for acceptance of all kinds, number more than the people in the world who do not.

I believe in kisses of all kinds: passionate kisses, sweet kisses on the neck, baby kisses, butterfly kisses, long and intense how do you come up for breath kisses, clandestine kisses, air kisses, glamourous and short kisses, old movie style kisses, kisses over the phone, kisses through words and thoughts and deeds, how do you do kisses, kisses that seal deals and kisses that break promises. And I believe in the intimacy of walking arm in arm.

I believe that wisdom can and does originate from unforetold sources.

I believe in women sharing each other, joying in each other, and I believe in the universality of experience across generations.
I believe that specificity is a virtue.
I believe that seeing specifity in abstraction is an important skill.

I believe in second chances.

I believe comfort and danger are both important, though not always equally or in the same context.

I believe in finding and recognizing what satisfies one's inner sense of balance.