"Running away from fear is fear; fighting..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.”

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

“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”

“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”

“I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.”

“Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.”

“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.”

“I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.”

“Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.”