Alan Watts Quotes

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.

All I'm trying to do is be me.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.