Inspiration Quote by Alan Watts — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

“God likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside of God, he has no one but himself to play with! But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear.”

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

“The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”