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Quote of Alan Watts - You can't live at all, unless...


Biography - Alan Watts:

British philosopher, writer and speaker.
Born: 1915 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.


You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
On ne vit rien si on ne vit pas pleinement, maintenant.

German
Du lebst erst dann, wenn du im Moment lebst. Jetzt.




See also 

See also...



Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.

Later it will be too late. Our life is now.

Never is done tomorrow what is not done today
And one should let no day slip by.
With resolution seize the possible straightway
By forelock and with quick, courageous trust;
Then holding fast you will not let it further fly
And you will labour on because you must.


If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.


You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I have now what Universal Nature wills me to have, and I do what my own nature wills me to do.

While we wait for life, life passes.




Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."











Quotes for: now


Quotes

Quotes about now:


Seize the day.





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





Now or never.
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Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow:
Gather today the roses of life.






I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.











Quotes

Alan Watts also said...


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





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.





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





Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.





Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.












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