"Trying to define yourself is like trying to……" — Alan Watts
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
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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 Bite Quotes
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Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
— Chuck Berry
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it…
— Emily Blunt
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on…
— Ray Bradbury
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it…
— Kirk Cameron
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
— George III
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.…
— Bruce Lee
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It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow…
— John Vanbiesbrouck
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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or…
— Denis Waitley
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff…
— Cary Middlecoff
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed…
— Pablo Neruda
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