Alan Watts Quotes, Flames Quotes, Events Quotes

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Events Quotes , Bottles Quotes

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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