“The only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.”
"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
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude
"To get happier, try gratitude, giving back, savoring, encouraging your optimism, and celebrating progress."
- Jonathan Harnum
Gratitude
"Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience."
- Roy T. Bennett
Gratitude
"Sometimes the little things in life mean the most."
- Ellen Hopkins
Gratitude
"The two words that will change your life are 'thank you'. Like a candle that can light a thousand more without shortening its own life, appreciation is a gift that, when given, can set the whole world aglow."
- Stacey Lee
Gratitude