Alan Watts Quotes

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

You don't have to be positive all the time.

Cold is a state of mind.

Maybe there is something wrong with me as I don't feel any pressure or fear.

I'm someone who's quite anxious and stresses out a lot and gives the impression that I'm laid back.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Panic is our great enemy.

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great - one more thing to feel guilty about when you can't do it.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

I react emotionally to everything!