Doctrine and Covenants, 127:2 (1 September 1842)
1840s
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
p 168
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Context: I resolved to follow my dream. I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them. And though it promised to make me poor and would take away the security provided by a career in law, that didn’t worry me.
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Variant: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
“Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
