Alan Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
It's showtime !
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
I'll have what she's having.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Follow your dreams.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Happiness is a state of mind.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
I'll be back.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Carpe diem.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.