Alan Watts The Book Quotes

#1. I'm glad we're not alone, but don't like that there are a lot of people. It's kind of problematic.

Jessica Sorensen

#2. Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey. He was everything Gansey wished he could be: wise and brave, sure of his path, touched by the supernatural, respected by all, survived by his legacy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Jerome K. Jerome

#4. That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen ... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because ... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

Alan Watts

#5. I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

#6. I believe that photographs actually rob all of us of our memory.

Sally Mann

#7. Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do less and accomplish more; do nothing and accomplish everything is nature's secret to the miracle of life.

John Douillard

#8. I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].

Andy Serkis

#9. It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

Jeffrey Fry

#10. I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

Dan Webster

#11. Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

Rand Olson

#12. The truth is that most of us go to great lengths to disguise our weaknesses.

Kyle Idleman

#13. Read Theodore Schwenk's marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),

Alan W. Watts