Alan Watts Quotes

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

... survival is the least of my desires.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete them, get money to complete them, get a job to complete them and still find themselves frustrated.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.