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Quote of Alan Watts - No valid plans for the future...


Biography - Alan Watts:

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

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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Aucun plan d’avenir valable ne peut être fait par ceux qui n’ont pas la capacité de vivre dans le moment présent.

German
Keine wirksamen Pläne für die Zukunft von denjenigen gemacht werden können, die nicht im Jetzt leben können.




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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.





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











Quotes for: future


Quotes

Quotes about the future:


As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Man is the future of man.





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.











Quotes for: now


Quotes

Quotes about now:


Seize the day.





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





Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.





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.












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.





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





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.





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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