Alan Watts Quotes
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to 'get culture' or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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Is there any of me, or of any of us, that isn’t just consequence?I think, and I’ve thought it over a lot, that everything that ever happened keeps on happening, extending tendrils of itself endlessly into the moving present tense of time, porducing its echoes, and explosions and extinctions forever.
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.
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I think the key to staying relevant and consistent is the fact that I do change from album to album and I always bring lots of different elements into my music.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to 'get culture' or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
