Alan Watts Quotes

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts

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• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Successful

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

  

  Fleur East
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Pressure

• I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Movies

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Fraud

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Please Everyone

• The one thing I'm absolutely tired of hearing is 'Republicans reaching across the aisle.' We need to step up and lead, ladies and gentlemen. I'm tired of reaching across the aisle.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Up
  • Tired

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dream

• People will hate you for no reason, or for bad reasons, or even for good reasons. People are torn apart by fame, and this is far beyond what most of them deal with. You're talking about yourself like you're a tool, but you're a person too. And an evolving one. This will affect your life forever.

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Life
  • Fame

• The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Struggle