Alan Watts Quotes

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

If you only get one roller-coaster ride, you don't want to be thinking about the second one when you're on it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I just want to enjoy every moment and try to be present in the moment of whatever I'm doing at that time.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.