Alan Watts

Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.

Alan Watts

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Alan Watts

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Alan Watts

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

Alan Watts

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Watts

The mind’s the standard of the man.

Alan Watts