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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We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

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Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

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The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that was my way of handling my own emotions about Donald Trump. I was talking about politics for so long, I just kind of ran out of juice on that.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

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I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

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Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

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People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

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It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

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Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

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He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail

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Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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