Alan Watts Quotes, Real Quotes, Trying Quotes

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

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I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.

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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

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I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".

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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

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For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

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The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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