“Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” PersonsIdeasMatterStatesMightCertainFaithTurnsUniverseAttitudeLetting GoOpennessFanatics Author:Shunryu Suzuki
“I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.” ThinkingMenBelieveWellsChildrenFeelingsMightPainFaithAttitudeTakenDoubtRationalEducatedArticlesSkepticismPersistentSkepticalBackyardsAnything In LifeEducated Man Author:Brenda Ueland
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” WayLifeInspirationalHardHappinessFaithPayAttitudePositivePositive ThinkingOptimismBusyPositivityActressesLifestyleProducersOptimisticComedianPositive AttitudeI've LearnedBelieve In YourselfHave FaithOptimistDiscouragedLife Is HardThink PositiveRestoringLucyPower Of Positive ThinkingFaith In YourselfLive And LearnKeep The FaithHard WayLife LearningBeing OptimisticKeep BelievingYou Live And You LearnOptimism In LifeOptimistic LifeKeep BusyPositivity And OptimismLearning The Hard WayBlind OptimismGood Optimistic Author:Lucille Ball