Quotes of Alan Watts

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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

- Alan Watts

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“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ Love isn't a feeling or emotion that changes timely, it's everlasting... ”

- Gandhi

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes