Alan Watts Quotes

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Free love? As if love is anything but free!

I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

I think love is blind. You don't see it; you don't hear what people are saying or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.

My love is not measured in reciprocity. That's not the way I learned love.

Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.

Real love is unconditional.