"It takes time for an acorn to turn……" — Alan Watts
"It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
Alan Watts has 347 quotes on this site.
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not…
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no…
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora…
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its…
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
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We usually don't look. We overlook.
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More Acorn Quotes
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one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
— Mario Batali
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird…
— James Allen
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Unknown Author
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
— Jim Cornette
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
— Philip Roth
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.…
— Marianne Williamson
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let…
— Ted Nugent
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Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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