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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of 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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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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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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The act is judged of by the event.

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

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of 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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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

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

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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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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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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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