Alan Watts Quotes

everyone has a religion, whether admitted or not, because it is impossible to be human without having some basic assumptions (or intuitions) about existence and the good life.

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• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
  • Matter

• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Risk

• Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Different
  • Experience

• It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Choices

• I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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  • Problem
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• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Quality

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • People
  • Real
  • Guy

• My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Late

• We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • World
  • Trying

• The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Bible
  • Creature
  • Oppose

• everyone has a religion, whether admitted or not, because it is impossible to be human without having some basic assumptions (or intuitions) about existence and the good life.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Good