You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Faith
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
-Shannon L. Alder
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
