Alan Watts Quotes

You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

It's a great way of getting my word out. I love Twitter and tweeting, and I have - between that and Facebook, I have like 10 million followers. It's a great way. Now if you do something bad to me, I can tweet about Chris. And the world will be seeing it.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.