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

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

“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.”

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”

“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.”

“The menu is not the meal.”

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

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.”

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

“It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”

“Everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery.”

“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.”