“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
- Alan Watts
Love
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vince Lombardi
Well-being
"Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!"
- Charlie Brown
Well-being
"People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass."
- Sophia Petrillo
Well-being
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
Well-being
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter."
- John Gotti
Well-being