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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Real Quotes , Trying Quotes

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Trying Quotes

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Trying Quotes

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam LaRoche Quotes , Trying Quotes , Today Quotes

I get up to 400 letters a week, so I have a full-time PA, but I try to answer everything. People don't seem to realise that if they send something living in the post it's going to die on the way. Especially when you wrap it in a polythene bag.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Titchmarsh Quotes , People Quotes , Trying Quotes

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Years Quotes , Trying Quotes

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Trying Quotes , Napkins Quotes

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Insecurity Quotes , Trying Quotes

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Garner Quotes , Trying Quotes , Force Quotes

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Communication Quotes , Trying Quotes

The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Running Quotes , Trying Quotes

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Trying Quotes

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Ayckbourn Quotes , Light Quotes , Trying Quotes

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Trying Quotes , Holes Quotes

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Trying Quotes , Way Quotes

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Luck Quotes , Trying Quotes

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Trying Quotes , Saws Quotes

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Long Quotes , Trying Quotes

He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Parry Quotes , Football Quotes , Trying Quotes

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Consistency Quotes , Trying Quotes