"No worthwhile life can be lived without..." - Quote by Alan Watts
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.
More by Alan Watts
“When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
“The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.”
“Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?”
More on Risk
“Microsoft is always two years away from failure.”
“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.”
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”
More on Life
“For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.”
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.”