Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.
– Alan W Watts
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- The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort. – Alan W Watts
- A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse. – Kilroy J Oldster
- When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of -¦ Nothing is left but to love. – Alan W Watts
- Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. – Alan W Watts
- I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. – Alan W Watts
- Discord on one level is harmony on another – Alan W Watts
- People become concerned with being more humble than other people. – Alan W Watts
- Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy. – Alan W Watts
- Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. – Alan W Watts
- In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. – Alan W Watts
- It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. – Alan W Watts
- One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. – Alan W Watts
- The source of all light is in the eye. – Alan W Watts
- To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead. – Alan W Watts
- You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. – Alan W Watts
- You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. – Alan W Watts
- Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. – Alan W Watts
- I owe my solitude to other people. – Alan W Watts
- Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way – Alan W Watts
- For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. – Alan W Watts
- Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure -“ attractively packaged but inferior in content. – Alan W Watts
- For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. – Alan W Watts
- It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate. – Alan W Watts
- Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. – Alan W Watts
- To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity. – Alan W Watts
- Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. – Alan W Watts
- Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort – Kim Holden
- Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort. – Domonique Bertolucci
- Two spectrums generate our thoughts -¦ one comes from fear and the other from love. Every emotion in between starts at one of those two places. – Toni Sorenson
- Generate happy moments. . . make miracles happen. Love is a miracle too. – Sahara Sanders
- Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations. – Amit Ray
- Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life. – Simon du Plock
- Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort. – Regina R Carver
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
- It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders – Fela Durotoye
- ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE). – Idries Shah
- In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs. – John Mark Green