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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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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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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

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Places remember events.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Essence Quotes , Events Quotes

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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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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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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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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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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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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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

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It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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