Alan Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Attitude determines altitude.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
You become what you think about.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
You had me at "hello".
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
None are homely who smile.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Success is the child of audacity.
Happy wife, happy life.
High expectations are the key to everything.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
This is nothing !
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Great men are not always wise.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
I am your number one fan.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Never stop dreaming.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.