"People sometimes fail to live because they..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'”

“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”

“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”

“I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.”

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

“The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.”

“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.”

“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”

“To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.”