January 6 Quotes

115 quotes in this collection

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. A quiet truth behind the illusion of the ego."

-- Alan Watts

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. A quiet truth behind the illusion of the ego."

-- Alan Watts

"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. A timeless observation that challenges our Western conditioning."

-- Alan Watts

"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. A timeless observation that challenges our Western conditioning."

-- Alan Watts

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. Words of awakening and existential clarity."

-- Alan Watts

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. Words of awakening and existential clarity."

-- Alan Watts

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking and exploring itself. This powerful statement invites us to simply be."

-- Alan Watts

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking and exploring itself. This powerful statement invites us to simply be."

-- Alan Watts

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. An enduring thought on the nature of reality."

-- Alan Watts

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. An enduring thought on the nature of reality."

-- Alan Watts

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. This spiritual wisdom still echoes across modern mindfulness practices."

-- Alan Watts

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. This spiritual wisdom still echoes across modern mindfulness practices."

-- Alan Watts

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. A profound reflection from the modern mystic."

-- Alan Watts

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. A profound reflection from the modern mystic."

-- Alan Watts

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. This encapsulates the essence of Eastern philosophy."

-- Alan Watts

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. This encapsulates the essence of Eastern philosophy."

-- Alan Watts

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Such is the nature of the Zen mindset."

-- Alan Watts

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Such is the nature of the Zen mindset."

-- Alan Watts

"It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

-- Lou Holtz

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

-- Lou Holtz

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are."

-- Angelina Jolie

"Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are."

-- Angelina Jolie

"I make it a point not to buy certain magazines... I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world."

-- Angelina Jolie

"I make it a point not to buy certain magazines... I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world."

-- Angelina Jolie

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

-- Socrates

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

-- Socrates

"The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul."

-- Socrates

"The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul."

-- Socrates

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

-- Socrates

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

-- Socrates

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously."

-- Bill Gates

"I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously."

-- Bill Gates