Allan Watts > Quotes

“And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to do things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of things you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
― Allan Watts

“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.”
― Allan Watts

“Better to have a short life that is full of what you life doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
― Allan Watts

“You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Now doesn't it just astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And you are doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it?”
― Allan Watts

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

“You never know what will be the consequence of misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune”
― Allan Watts

“A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea.”
― Allan Watts, Calea Zen

“If, then, we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures. Without such willingness there can be no growth in the intensity of consciousness.”
― Allan Watts

“En otras palabras, la gente trata de forzar los acontecimientos, sin comprender que resulta imposible hacerlo: no hay manera de desviarse del fluir de la naturaleza.”
― Allan Watts

“A great occasion is somehow spoiled for is unless photographed and to read about it the next day in the newspaper is oddly more fun for us than the original event this is a disaste”
― Allan Watts