Alan Watts Quotes

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

I can only focus on what I can control.

I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

You will become what you believe. The truth is, I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

You control what you can control.