Alan Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
You create your reality.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Love is something eternal.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Don't ever give up.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I am your number one fan.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
They are able because they think they are able.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
You had me at "hello".
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
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 ?'
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Security is a kind of death.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
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.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.