To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

- Alan Watts

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

- Alan Watts

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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

- Alan Watts

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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

- Alan Watts

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"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."

- Alan Watts

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"Perhaps we all see ourselves as a little less than we are. Unworthy. Untalented. Nothing special. Lacking the heart, mind, resources, charisma, or stature to be of much use to God. You say you’re not perfect? You’re not good enough? Welcome to the club! You may be just the person God is looking for. God doesn’t need you to be exceptional, let alone perfect. He will take your talents and abilities and multiply them—even though they may seem scarce as a few loaves and fishes. If you trust Him and are faithful, He will magnify your words and actions and use them to bless and minister to multitudes!"

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"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

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"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

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"If you think you can’t, change your mind."

- Denis Morton

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"I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist."

- Shaquille O'Neal

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