Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I believe you can speak things into existence.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.

Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.

Pretend and it will be true.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

I always believe that if you put it out there in the universe and you believe in it, you will stuff to happen.

We just speaking stuff into existence, on God.

As you ask and feel and believe, you will receive.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Believe it and it will happen.

If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.